From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:26:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ejo2nrf6.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173475881 18533 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2007 21:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: offby1@blarg.net, william.xue@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 22:31:16 2007 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 4.50) id 1HPmgF-0007Fg-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:31:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPmgY-0007Ia-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:31:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPmdx-0004fp-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPmdw-0004eV-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPmdv-0004e3-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPmdY-0000gT-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:28:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPmbT-0000V3-No; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:26:19 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:36:07 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67652 Archived-At: > Cygwin uses the build procedure documented in the main INSTALL file, > which is correct as far as we know. > > nt/INSTALL does not say that. Yes, it does: it talks about a "native Windows build", which is the opposite of Cygwin. That is an indirect way of saying it. Perhaps some people won't understand. The more explicit the message, the less people will misunderstand. Anyway, Cygwin users are used to run the usual "./configure; make" commands one uses on GNU/Linux to build packages. That may be true for Cygwin users with experience. But not for new ones. > nt/INSTALL does not say that. Shouldn't it? I added something to say this even more clearly than we did before. Your change made it a little clearer, but didn't say anything about Cygwin. I added an explicit statement about Cygwin. When something is really important to communicate, it's a mistake to ask whether it "should be clear the way it is". The question to ask is, "Can we do anything to make sure people get the message?"