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: Failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin (fwd) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:52:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070903075037.2652@blackhawk> <20070903092334.2296@blackhawk> <200709041620.l84GKRKJ026897@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709042136.l84Lawms007683@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709051738.l85HcYIp008041@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709052022.l85KMftF014117@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709052054.l85KsfQf015447@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709061626.l86GQW6H018052@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <20070907082641.2052@blackhawk> <20070908160550.1764@blackhawk> <85ejh8s156.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189449769 2631 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2007 18:42:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, eliz@gnu.org, dhenman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 04:42:35 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 1IUu0A-0008KJ-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:53:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUmVn-0004cM-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUmVj-0004aV-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUmVi-0004Yu-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUmVi-0004Ye-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUmVh-00070U-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUmVK-0004az-7f; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:52:54 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Angelo Graziosi on Sun, 9 Sep 2007 23:31:56 +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:78473 Archived-At: If I use Cygwin is because I think interesting to port linux software to Windows world and Cygwin is one way. That's a useful thing (though I would rather erase Windows if it were me). But GNU Emacs is not Linux software. It is not part of Linux, I did not write it for Linux. It has nothing particularly to do with Linux.