From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:52:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87ej5lah0f.fsf@gmx.de> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87wsje37rg.fsf@saeurebad.de> <86mykaggmk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4885EA77.5030208@gmail.com> <86ej5mgf05.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4885F31E.8080408@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216753063 13549 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 18:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Johannes Weiner , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 20:58:31 2008 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 1KLN4A-0002zN-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:58:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLN3H-0001oN-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLN3D-0001oI-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLN3C-0001o0-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58969 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLN3B-0001nx-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38614) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLN3B-0002gG-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2008 18:57:27 -0000 Original-Received: from p54867D23.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO debian) [84.134.125.35] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 22 Jul 2008 20:57:27 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18YfvdMokcYOif75TNOfjdErMkiFFz3X3YxvEYdiA 0DL6M4N4GExcoD In-Reply-To: <4885F31E.8080408@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:47:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:101236 Archived-At: On 2008-07-22 16:47 +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > David Kastrup wrote: >> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >> >>> David Kastrup wrote: >>>> Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling >>>> workarounds like that? And of course, this just works on one version of >>>> cmd.exe, and might break on another. >>> Why don't you use perl for example instead? >> >> Chicken and egg. Installation scripts have to rely on what is there. > > But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that > possibility there any more? If you're referring to perlcc, that was indeed removed from Perl 5.10. Sven