From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:07:27 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039000850 24618 80.91.224.249 (4 Dec 2002 11:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JXaC-0006Ot-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JXk9-0005Lq-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:31:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JXO6-0007ZN-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JXNK-0006XB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JXNH-0006Sb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JXNH-0006Rx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18JXNH-0003zI-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:07:27 -0500 Original-To: jbuehler@hekimian.com In-reply-to: (message from Joe Buehler on Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:14:05 -0500) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9855 > - (if (memq system-type '(hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux)) > + (if (memq system-type '(hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux cygwin)) > > Since we are introducing a new value for system-type, it should be > documented in the ELisp manual, I think. Making a new value for system-type is a drastic thing to do. It could mean many places that test system-type need to be changed. Is that really the best thing to do here? How many of these tests want to treat cygwin differently from windows-nt, and how many of them want to treat it the same? Is it possible to distinguish them using system-configuration?