From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:06:21 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055426829 18771 80.91.224.249 (12 Jun 2003 14:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 16:07:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QSjL-0004sc-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19QT4q-0003j2-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:29:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QSkU-0005ZS-NO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QSjs-0005F5-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QSjG-0004qe-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QSic-0004aP-1x; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19QSib-0003nB-5s; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:06:21 -0400 Original-To: Dave Love In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:33:26 +0100) Original-cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15058 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15058 > That will work provided there is no case > where that file exists but including it is harmful. The question is really whether there is any reason to think it might be harmful, i.e. why wasn't it done like that originally? If no-one knows, it seems best just to do it, as it seems unlikely to cause grief. I would suspect the conditional was written before there was Autoconf, and that there was no technical reason not to use Autoconf if it had existed. > _WIN32 WIN32 __WIN32__ __MSDOS__ WINDOWS32 > > WINDOWSNT is what Emacs uses. It is a GNU convention that we do not > use the abbreviation "WIN" to refer to Windows. Are those names > used in any GNU packages? Gcc actually defines them. Do other compilers for Windows define them too? If so, then GCC should define them also; it is a technical need. If not, we should rename them.