From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:42:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a93prfyq.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 546A11D5.3090402@cs.ucla.edu
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> I thought that this type of tasks are the raison d'être of `configure'.
>
> No, the point of 'configure' is to do things that ordinary C and
> 'make' cannot. Here, we have something that ordinary C can do, so
> 'configure' isn't needed.
Ok.
>> Doing that is a kludge.
>
> Perhaps, but doing it in 'configure' is a worse kludge. The stuff in
> 'conf_post.h' is, by design, included everywhere, and it's the logical
> place to put global things that don't need 'configure''s help.
After looking at it, seems that 'conf_post.h' can do the job. But
instead of placing the #define on some header that 'conf_post.h'
includes, I'll like to put it in 'conf_post.h' itself. There are similar
chunks of code there, so I guess that there is no problem.
> More generally, it would be better yet
[snip]
Indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-17 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 3:24 [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64 Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 4:04 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 4:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 4:32 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 15:18 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 15:42 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2014-11-17 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 18:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 19:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 22:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 3:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-18 3:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-18 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:03 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:02 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 4:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 17:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 8:24 ` Stephen Leake
2014-11-18 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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