> Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:27:05 +0200 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I once again missed that 'cvs update -kb' I decided to do > something about it. I have attached a bat-file that checks for this and > also for the existence of 'find' and 'xargs' which I believe also are > needed to build Emacs.
<rant> Why send it as a .zip file in a binary attachment, when all you want to send is plain text for inclusion in configure.bat? </rant> > This runs under cmd.exe and it also seems to work under command.com. > > Could we please augment configure.bat with this? ;-) Thanks. I must say that I don't like this solution too much. First, the problems you are trying to solve are only relevant for people who build CVS Emacs. It is IMHO a bad idea to frighten users who are building from a released tarball by warning them against non-existent problems or asking them to install unneeded utilities. Checking the line endings with "grep -P" is also less than ideal: some users might have a Grep that is not recent enough to support -P, or even a Grep that is not a GNU Grep. AFAICS, we didn't even require to have Grep installed until now. Finally, I think the Windows build needs neither `find' nor `xargs'. Can you tell where you saw them used? Therefore, I suggest the following strategy for solving the -kb issue: put a small C program into the nt subdirectory which would read nt/configure.bat, nt/nmake.defs, and nt/makefile.w32-in in binary mode and make sure they have the right line endings; if they don't, this program would fail. Then have this program invoked by "make bootstrap" in the nt directory. Would you like to implement this solution? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
