From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:49:35 -0800 Message-ID: <87bqj4mdq8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <87ejo2nrf6.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <87wt1tm24o.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173336602 24850 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 06:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: william.xue@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 07:49:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HPCRl-0005kK-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:49:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPCRw-00060P-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:50:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPCRj-0005uh-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPCRi-0005sW-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPCRh-0005s6-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:50 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp61.avvanta.com ([206.124.128.61] helo=mail.avvanta.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPCRW-0002OC-3C; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.avvanta.com (localhost.drteeth.p.blarg.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.avvanta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280EAF3CB1; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:49:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net (q-static-138-125.avvanta.com [206.124.138.125]) by mail.avvanta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D97F3C56; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:49:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from erich by offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPCRT-0003Fo-7y; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:49:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 08 Mar 2007 06\:13\:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-BlargAV-Status: No viruses detected, BlargAV v1.1 on localhost.drteeth.p.blarg.net X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67560 Archived-At: >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Uh oh. I suggested that only because nt/INSTALL says >> >> (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake >> bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.) Eli> nt/INSTALL does not cover the Cygwin build, it only covers Eli> the native Windows builds. Ah, I think we misunderstood each other, which is actually good: _I_ was referring to building a native Windows version of Emacs, _using_ the Cygwin tools (in particular, Cygwin gcc). I've found that works fine, as long as I don't use Cygwin's "make". -- I shrivel inside each time [Star Wars] is mentioned. -- Sir Alec Guinness