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 build on Windows: Prerequisites Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:17:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85k5y2l941.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45E5FCB5.5050104@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172722737 14413 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 04:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 05:18:47 2007 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 1HMcke-0002AX-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:18:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMckf-0005fv-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMckU-0005eW-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMck9-0005Nw-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMck8-0005NU-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMck3-00033g-5U; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.37.199]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HGP11956 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:18:07 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <45E5FCB5.5050104@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:05:41 +0000) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:67100 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:05:41 +0000 > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: Emacs Devel > > There are a couple of paragraphs of commentary in nt/gmake.defs about > why past maintainers chose to require cp and rm to build Emacs rather > than use the Windows native del and copy commands. Some of those reasons are also a thing of the past. For example, latest versions of GNU Make do support setting SHELL to cmd.exe. But backslashes in file names is still sometimes an issue, even though quoting file names solves that in some cases.