From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cannot build on w32 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4D373515.6010902@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295549178 4124 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2011 18:46:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 19:46:14 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfzWP-0002BS-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfzWP-0004SO-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55447 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfzWG-0004Q2-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfzWE-0004Gc-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:42030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfzWE-0004GF-Fm; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so459070eyh.0 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=aDnSSsfkUJbtqVt9Kdl61+japupxVQY3u7zK4G3LTrE=; b=oWKmfKf+YRbsQxN8l7nrHm6ByH6HmGX/UTkH/QjA25iMurOTeRDJPsxG/2k0RNl8BE Hb2bv2MW+q1a7s3M0mn6qY4xIkFeD8OYml/VtLty9nUrwLNcVvIFLiXXzTZG4TY6C24F MkS0dppNl9gHCzthp/wkGtohjkjJZJZL+OyRU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=DRTAIsBQgCGDLPLf3eFsvEx68h1hbwNIziApMUzkmQayiCfEUDLJCVhkdHcTbxMUTd VI2exR+nMBm0wFV9QX0rE39cIF6r7S989pXQP63J7OR23UZyDymGQf0hHYNFljknRCP7 ucKgdlnHoS21dty7PNllJ+nNGG9Ub3g/c3z4M= Original-Received: by 10.14.131.200 with SMTP id m48mr1308355eei.19.1295549161210; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.14.127.207 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: FoMhbJkMlriUctDEH4_wdR_ugr8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:134830 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:17:55 -0500 >> From: Sam Steingold >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > OSX uses autoconf and doesn't build right now... >> >> it's not enough to have a magic bullet - you also have to know how to use it :-) >> (in this particular case - switching to gnulib is a non-trivial step, >> so some breakage is nigh inevitable). > > Exactly my point: with such a non-trivial step, the fact that the w32 > build is broken does not mean we should conclude that the Windows port > cannot be reasonably maintained without using autoconf. Agreed. However, it is a very good point in time to revisit the option of using autoconf on windows. -- Sam Steingold