From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216487250 21850 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2008 17:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, lord@emf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 19:08:17 2008 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 1KKFuk-0003uw-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFts-0001eO-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFta-0001Kp-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFtZ-0001Jk-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41961 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFtZ-0001JU-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36038) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKFtY-0004qJ-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KKFsu-0001fR-Ok; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:48:14 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:100992 Archived-At: > I tried at one point to convince XFree86 to support the GNU > configuration spec. I even found a volunteer to implement that as a > wrapper around their existing configuration mechanism. But they did > not consider such compatibility very important, and I don't think they > installed this wrapper. Note that the current standard X distribution, Xorg, now uses gnu auto* tools for configuration. That is good news, but the general problem remains as far as I know. Has there been a general move towards supporting the GNU configure and build specs? That would make it much easier to build a whole system from source.