From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk bootstrap failure [Cygwin] Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4C326C4F.2010604@alice.it> <4C32F295.7050608@alice.it> <4C344500.9010906@alice.it> <4C3518CD.3030609@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278568504 11971 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 05:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 05:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 07:55:03 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWk4a-0002Sv-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:55:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWk4Z-0002F4-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45571 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWk4R-0002Ez-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OWk4Q-0005b8-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38818) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OWk4Q-0005b4-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWk4P-0006vL-OF; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:54:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C3518CD.3030609@alice.it> (Angelo Graziosi's message of "Thu\, 08 Jul 2010 02\:16\:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126894 Archived-At: Angelo Graziosi writes: > Il 07/07/2010 18.22, Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto: >> >> It looks like the start_of_text function is only used on AIX and >> MSDOS, so you can get the same result by completely removing start_of_text, which makes the >> #define TEXT_START >> unnecessary. > > Indeed. Emacs (rev.100746) bootstraps also with these patches: Thanks. Should I go ahead with this change then? > Since 'start_of_text' is not used by Cygwin build, shouldn't 'ecrt0.c' > be completely unnecessary? That's exactly the reason for this discussion: getting rid of ecrt0.c.