Re: Successful build of emacs-unicode-2 under Windows with MinGW

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:43:07 +0100, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Dhruva Krishnamurthy <address@hidden> writes:
> > > BTW, do you suggest, I use '-kb' option for all my CVS checkouts?
> >
> > No, only the emacs/nt directory needs to be checked out as binary.
> > emacs/leim used to require it, and that is why I suggested trying it
> > in case the fix from HEAD had not been merged into emacs-unicode-2,
> > but if it does not help, then the problem lies elsewhere.
>
> I did a checkout with '-kb' of the complete tree just to feel more
> comfortable. I did an update today (27th Sept 2004) and WOW, I was
> able to build the complete emacs-unicode-2 with leim using MSVC 6.0 on
> W2K platform. So, we now have a code base which builds fine with no
> issues atleast on W2K and MSVC combination.

Actually, this is a weird approach.  AFAIK, CVS repository maintainers
can use `cvs admin' so that `emacs/nt' is checked out as binary
automatically.  Wouldn't it be more logical?

Paul