From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <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> <20080714122400.GB3445@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216038108 352 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2008 12:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 14:22:35 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 1KIN4R-0003lb-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:22:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIN3Y-0002hN-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIN3M-0002ci-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIN3K-0002bM-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48977 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIN3J-0002bH-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:47415 helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIN34-00074Q-F0; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m6ECKmLc029797; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080714122400.GB3445@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:24:00 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:100679 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > > The point is that installing MS-Windows _works_. Most of the time, > pretty painlessly. I've done it for a friend a few times. There was no > need for me to crawl through HOWTOs or search out kernel documentation > to make it work. As a data-point, I've quite often failed to install MS-Windows, and then flawlessly installed a Fedora GNU/Linux on the same machine. No magic-incantations, even. > > That has not been my experience of GNU/Linux, in particular Debian > Sarge and some older versions of SuSE. I accept that others have had > better experiences installing G/L. > > Please don't construe this as me advocating MS-Windows. I'm not. It's > just that reality doesn't go away when you shut your eyes. > >> -Miles -- Joakim Verona