From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:10 +0900 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> <20080713225327.GC1076@muc.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216032361 13312 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2008 10:46:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" , drobinow@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 12:46:48 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 1KILZg-0005Ch-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:46:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KILYn-0004yZ-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KILYi-0004xD-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KILYe-0004uZ-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54296 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KILYe-0004uA-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:63474) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KILYS-0002L6-2s; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m6EAjBXa000012; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:11 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:11 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id AB0CE598; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:45:10 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20080713225327.GC1076@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:53:27 +0000") Original-Lines: 17 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:100672 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: >> Getting a printer working was trivial as well, I did not even need to >> specify the driver. > > Good for you! It just worked. You had a magic spell in your > distribution. They either work 100% or totally fail. In the latter > case, they give you NO information to help you diagnose things. They > say, in effect "don't worry your pretty little head about this, leave > everything to me". Of course, that's how _everything_ on windows works. If it doesn't do the right thing, well, you're fucked, go buy a new computer. -Miles -- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.