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Re: Emacs vista build failures
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:59:37 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:14:29 -0400
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>>
>> unfortunately there's no native Windows port of a Posix shell that
>> is bug-free and powerful enough to run a typical configure script.
>
> At least to my best knowledge, that is. If someone knows about such a
> beast, please tell where to find it.
Cygwin provides precisely that.
Some might say "it's not 'native'; it relies on the cygwin.dll". I
think that's a quibble; it's easy to install, it provides sufficient
power to run typical configures; that satisfies the stated requirements.
No software is completely "bug-free", but Cygwin bash is as good as
any other port of Gnu bash, in my experience.
--
-- Stephe
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/22
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures,
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
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