From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@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> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884DA4F.20203@gmail.com> <8763qzxcfd.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884E551.3050304@gmail.com> <86fxq2j1af.fsf@timbral.net> <4885977B.6090700@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216764936 23221 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 22:15:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 00:16:25 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 1KLQ9Y-0004dd-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:16:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ8e-0008LF-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ8Z-0008KA-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ8X-0008Je-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42123 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQ8X-0008Jb-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45213) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQ8X-0004Py-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQ7p-0006tL-Pg; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:14:29 -0400 In-reply-to: (ams@gnu.org) 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:101251 Archived-At: > CC: jasonr@gnu.org, thorne@timbral.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Reply-to: ams@gnu.org > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:56 -0400 > > > I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though - the > > shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until it has > > been built by a bootstrap. > > The shell could be built before running the configure. > > And how would that work for every other platform? We were not talking about every other platform, just about w32. Posix platforms don't need to build a shell, they already have it. > Really, why not have a shell (say bash) that can be easily installed > on Windows (a .exe that you can put somewhere), and whatever other > platform. It could be distributed on ftp.gnu.org, like the emacs > binaries for windows and other such unfriendly platforms. That'd be the best, but unfortunately there's no native Windows port of a Posix shell that is bug-free and powerful enough to run a typical configure script.