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: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:48:41 -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> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4883A1E4.4010502@gmail.com> <48845124.60805@gmail.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 1216695068 25283 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 02:51:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, lord@emf.net, drobinow@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 04:51:55 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 1KL7yk-0007AR-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:51:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL7xr-0004nb-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:50:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL7wM-0004Hp-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL7wK-0004Hd-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40164 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL7wJ-0004Ha-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:41021) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL7wJ-0002vb-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KL7vd-0003zQ-8d; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:48:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <48845124.60805@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) 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:101152 Archived-At: As David pointed out this would not be specific to w32. It would rather be a tool that we could rely on that we could use everywhere. If it is for use on multiple platforms, maybe it is a good thing. On the other hand, maybe it is better to migrate to using Scons, and make simple wrappers to implement the GNU configuration spec and make spec.