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Re: Emacs vista build failures
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:57:58 -0400 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:24:38 +0200
>
> Yes, since COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE behave quite differently, and also
> differently on different versions of Windows.
And zsh behaves differently from Bash which behaves differently from
the Borne shell.
> So tell me: How to you quote the word (written as Lisp string)
> "\"goof\" " to the typical Windows shell?
See the Emacs makefiles for Windows.
> >> There are consequences: for example, call-process and its ilk don't work
> >> reliably. You can't expect the arguments given to them to actually make
> >> it unmolested to the argc/argv of the called program's "main".
> >
> > Only because the surrounding code expects a Posix-compliant set of
> > functions and syscalls. It was not written with portability in mind
> > from the ground up.
>
> I often doubt it was written with anything in mind. As it stands, it is
> a half-baked pseudo-Posix wrappery about CP/M calling conventions.
I was talking about Emacs code that implements call-process and its
subroutines.
> When looking at design and implementation of first DOS and later
> Windows, I often had the feeling "this is so stupid and braindead that I
> can hardly believe it". With UNIX, the feeling was more often "I wish I
> would have thought of that".
Are you sure you know the design and implementation of DOS and Windows
well enough to say this?
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, (continued)
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/21
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/21
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 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,
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- 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, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/21
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Johannes Weiner, 2008/07/21
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 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