On 9 August 2014 07:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 00:19:39 +0100
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
> 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > 2. The MS-DOS build system was broken in Emacs 24.3, i.e. the most recent
> > release.
>
> It works fine for me (but I don't have FreeDOS installed and didn't
> try to build on FreeDOS).
>
> > 3. Rather than try to repair the MS-DOS build system (which remains,
> > AFAICS, the only documented way to build Emacs for MS-DOS), it seems more
> > productive to get the normal build system working.
>
> Feel free to do that, but personally, I think this is a waste of
> energy.  From my POV, the DJGPP build of Emacs is in maintenance mode:
> no new features specific to that build are or should be considered.
>

That's pretty much the point: I am suggesting removing features specific to
the build (in this case, the build system) and letting the normal build
system take the strain instead.

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