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Re: building gnu emacs under xfree ?
- From: Eric Chastan <eric dot chastan at netcelo dot com>
- To: Jon Cast <jcast at ou dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:30:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: building gnu emacs under xfree ?
- References: <200203051718.g25HIbu08483@cate0-223.reshall.ou.edu>
Jon Cast wrote:
> Eric Chastan <eric.chastan@netcelo.com> wrote:
>
> > Is someone allready manage to build emacs under xfree ?
>
> Just about everyone who's built Emacs on a free Un*x has built it
> under xfree.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, though, no one has done such a thing on
> Cygwin, though.
>
> > Is someone have some tips on how doing it ?
>
> Yes. Modify Emacs' configure.in file, s/cygwin.h file (not included
> in stock CVS), and (possibly) source code to support Cygwin and
> Cygwin/XFree. Then, build it. Or, wait for me to finish doing the
> required modifications. (Which may take a while; I don't /need/ Emacs
> on Cygwin, so I probably won't have as much resources to devote to it
> as you might.)
>
Jon , thanks for your response. I will wait that you've done the
modification because I'm afraid that i will not be able to go throught the
source code to do the "required" modifications !
Eric.
>
> > Eric.
>
> Jon Cast