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: Pretest Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:12:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4543389E.3090006@gnu.org> <4543CFDF.1060605@gnu.org> <45448DB1.8080800@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162243102 20604 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 21:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 22:18:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeQr-0006If-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:12:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeQr-00056F-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeQa-00055k-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeQZ-00055U-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeeQZ-00055R-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeeQV-0004SP-Lx; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([81.5.47.83]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GCX98814 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:12:07 +0200 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:15 -0500) 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:61426 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: jasonr@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:15 -0500 > > I don't know the Windows build code, but I'd expect this to be a > fairly small change. And since it only has to run on one system, once > it is working for one of you, there's not a big chance it will fail > elsewhere. It is not a small change. It requires to move portions of lib-src/makefile.w32-in to src/makefile.w32-in, and then making corresponding changes in nt/makefile.w32-in. The moved portions should work both for normal build and for bootstrap. The Windows build is generally quite fragile, since it needs to support a variety of Windows versions and shells, both stock Windows shells (some of which are very stupid) and ported Unix shells, and also a variety of ports of cp, mv, etc. Some Windows versions are not in use by the Emacs developers, so we have no good way of testing such non-trivial changes. That is why I think we can live with the few minor problems until after the release. > Anyway, keeping things similar from system to system tends to be cleaner. I agree.