From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216665514 6914 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 18:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, rms@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, Miles Bader To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 20:39:22 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 1KL0I1-0001xO-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:39:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL0H8-0000YO-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL0Gj-0000ID-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL0Gh-0000H8-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47523 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL0Gh-0000H2-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from saeurebad.de ([85.214.36.134]:42208) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL0GZ-0005OZ-8I; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: by saeurebad.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id E71CA4A0008; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (217-68-166-249.dynamic.primacom.net [217.68.166.249]) by saeurebad.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B554A0002; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101108 Archived-At: Hi, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Johannes Weiner wrote: >>> Doing so _manually_ (as a shell script or something) is not particularly >>> hard if you have simple needs. If you're using some other build tool, >>> it should often be fairly straight-forward to use that tool with a thin >>> layer on top to implement the GNU configure interface. >> >> It would be cool to have shell libraries you could use for whipping your >> own configure. I.e. no m4 macros but powerful shell functions you can >> just call. > > > And once again: If this did not work easily on w32 too it might stop > people from using it. To be honest, I couldn't give the slightest about w32. It's a pile of crap that should have never seen the light of day, all political issues left aside and I, FWIW, would not consider it when designing software. Hannes