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: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:26:19 -0800 Message-ID: <87psc9fqbo.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <20061030022239.AEY02066@m1.t-2.net> <87wt6hfsue.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162267391 22106 80.91.229.2 (31 Oct 2006 04:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 31 05:03:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekq9-0005rQ-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekq8-0007V8-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeeR-00056L-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeeN-000523-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:26:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeeN-000520-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GeeeI-0007Dp-Df; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.124.128.61] (helo=mail.avvanta.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeeeH-00086P-1m; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.avvanta.com (scooter.p.blarg.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.avvanta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DE4276FA2; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:26:20 -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 4B799276EF4; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:26:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from erich by offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeeeB-0005XI-6j; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:26:19 -0800 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 30 Oct 2006 23\:05\:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) X-BlargAV-Status: No viruses detected, BlargAV v1.1 on localhost.scooter.p.blarg.net X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:01:46 -0500 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:61452 Archived-At: >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: Eli> No, that's the wrong file: the problem is in the Cygwin Eli> build, which doesn't use any of the stuff in nt/. You're right. Eli> The right place is etc/PROBLEMS. This, however, I have doubts about: 3.4 appears to be what Cygwin installs by default, so presumably this problem will hit most Cygwin users. I think if the note were in INSTALL, people would be more likely to see it. Regardless, I think the INSTALL file could be improved a smidgen, with this change: --- INSTALL 26 Jul 2006 19:19:06 -0700 1.115 +++ INSTALL 30 Oct 2006 13:25:59 -0800 @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: -(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X, +(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system, including Cygwin. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X, see below; search for MSDOG. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT, and Windows 2000, see the file nt/INSTALL. For the Mac, see the file mac/INSTALL.) -- Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- John F. Woods