Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > >>The problem is, I don't think that checking tools is a good strategy, >>on the long term. Different versions sometimes work or cease to work. >>I was able to build the Emacs info files with Cygwin for a while, and >>after some update or other the thing failed. Me, I've assembled a .ZIP >>with the tools needed (except MinGW, which I install separately), and >>I unzip it wherever I want to compile Emacs. They are completely >>separated of other installations of Unix tools that I may have on my >>computer, and for sure I don't intend to change anything inside it >>unless a future Emacs requires an upgrade (as Jason said, that >>sometimes happens with make-info). >> >> > Maybe different strategies are needed for different times. I have > noticed the careful notes in INSTALL about certain parts of the > tools. Perhaps that could be extended a bit. I see three different > current tool packages on w32: GnuWin32, CygWin and MSYS+MinGW.
>From the vole itself: SFU <URL:http:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/>. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
