Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

No, it doesn't.

> Some might say "it's not 'native'; it relies on the cygwin.dll". I
> think that's a quibble; it's easy to install,

But you can't use it without installing it.  And installing it tampers
with the registry.  And it can't be done in a batch job without user
interaction.

And if you do
  some_command `pwd`
in it, only Cygwin programs will be able to properly interpret the
output of pwd.

> No software is completely "bug-free", but Cygwin bash is as good as
> any other port of Gnu bash, in my experience.

It is useless as an installation helper since it requires you to
interactively install and configure the whole of Cygwin and there is no
easy way to get rid of it again and there is no reasonable way to
entertain more than one installation of Cygwin on a single system since
it tampers with the registry.

-- 
David Kastrup