From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:43:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83pqi01rcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> <87ipnsbblw.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318556684 18926 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2011 01:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 03:44:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REWpC-0003oY-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:44:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWpB-0008FR-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWp9-0008FM-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWp8-00057t-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:56105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWp7-00057e-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so562257gyf.0 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:44:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nmSKp8CdKOtrHQTqf+xSAFhAM3LxfYeKWKVdP0Q7Xqk=; b=ZNcgLyGqFYudgCNtCdrGKaNpmFUbX2x0XFkGKF2LwH3uzJTZV6gtCLu+9R5DpIlDp5 4Hg+HNSMHvhl6RVxCfhAWigmpZAldNyQVh0XhDwW9fEJJ2j1lzu+HmJVr2vAGWeHI8J+ ZOLh5g2knidXBcqp/JWSfoigSsfzZsK86aZyE= Original-Received: by 10.68.37.97 with SMTP id x1mr13105650pbj.14.1318556673077; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.165.16 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:43:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ipnsbblw.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145182 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 03:33, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > You are correct about the makefiles. You need cmake to generate > them. But today you need some external tools (I'm talking about Windows) > that would be unnecessary with cmake. You would still need to install some unix tools to build the info files, I think? > So I can't see why requiring cmake > instead of those Unix utils is unacceptable. I suppose, the less common the tools are, the greater the resistance. For many people (at least, people building Unixy tools, like Emacs, on Windows), installing rm, cp etc. is not a prerequisite because they will likely have them already installed. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma