From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean O'Rourke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:33:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <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> <87wsje37rg.fsf@saeurebad.de> <86mykaggmk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4885EA77.5030208@gmail.com> <86ej5mgf05.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4885F31E.8080408@gmail.com> <87ej5lah0f.fsf@gmx.de> <48863103.9060003@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216755301 22152 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 19:35:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:35:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 21:35:47 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 1KLNdd-00019J-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLNcj-0000QD-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLNcd-0000Nq-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLNcZ-0000K1-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59053 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLNcY-0000J4-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33957 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLNcH-0000no-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLNcC-0004eF-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:33:40 +0000 Original-Received: from zone2-a9e8d735.host.ucla.edu ([169.232.215.53]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:33:40 +0000 Original-Received: from seano by zone2-a9e8d735.host.ucla.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:33:40 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zone2-a9e8d735.host.ucla.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODOsgaN6aHwcbF5kXskxZtI9szY= 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:101239 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-07-22 16:47 +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> >>> David Kastrup wrote: >>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >>>> >>>>> David Kastrup wrote: >>>>>> Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling >>>>>> workarounds like that? And of course, this just works on one version of >>>>>> cmd.exe, and might break on another. >>>>> Why don't you use perl for example instead? >>>> Chicken and egg. Installation scripts have to rely on what is there. >>> But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that >>> possibility there any more? >> >> If you're referring to perlcc, that was indeed removed from Perl 5.10. > > I believe there are still a commercial alternative for it. PAR's pp[1] utility does this, I believe, and is free. Sean [1] http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-Packer-0.980/lib/pp.pm