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Re: Emacs for sites with different operating systems and CVS.
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Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs for sites with different operating systems and CVS. |
Date: |
28 May 2003 08:03:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> writes:
> I think the second option, but then why is there, seemingly, a specific
> source tree for the windows Emacs?
It is only seemingly. The source is the same. A copy of the source is
kept in ftp.gnu.org:/gnu/windows/emacs so that people downloading the
Windows binary can find it easily.
> Are there different steps because there are special files and such
> which therefore make it difficult to build windows from the same
> source as Linux as ...
Windows has a different default shell, and different tools than the
typical Unix system. But with Cygwin, it is possible to build Emacs
using the standard configure and make steps.