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Re: Emacs vista build failures
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:49:56 -0400 |
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:20:29 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Stephen Leake wrote:
>
> > Some might say "it's not 'native'; it relies on the cygwin.dll".
>
> That is not a real criticism, many Windows programs depend on their own
> shared libraries.
>
> A real criticism is that it does not interact well with native Windows
> programs, which causes lots of ugly workarounds to be needed in shell
> scripts and makefiles.
Yes, exactly. The /cygdrive stuff, the incompatible command-line
quoting, text/binary mounts of filesystems, reliance on Bash when
`system' is called, signals that only work between Cygwin programs,
etc. etc., -- all this makes Cygwin a perfect environment if, but only
if you confine yourself to running Cygwin programs and nothing else.
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, (continued)
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, James Cloos, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Stephen Leake, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Jason Rumney, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/21