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Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10
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H. Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10 |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:30:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> core.autocrlf=true
>
> Bad idea: it should be 'false'. Git should not change the EOLs,
> neither when it checks out files, nor when it pushes them upstream.
Excuse me, I overlooked the crlf hint in the (optional) git section of
INSTALL.w64.
> I'm not sure this is the root cause of your problem, but it might be.
> Suggest to reconfigure Git, and then delete your local repository and
> clone it again.
I did that and an emacs-28.0.60 was build :-) thank you very much!
>> Must be the default for this git installation on Windows, I didn't touch
>> it.
>
> When you install Git, it asks you how you want to treat EOLs, and you
> should have selected "checkout as-is, checkin as-is" (or somesuch, I
> don't remember the exact wording).
Well, git slumbered on this Windows system for a few years, I can't
remember...
>> A sample of text files are encoded in undecided-dos in the emacs
>> repo. Do the files need to be encoded in Unix style line endings for
>> MinGW tools?
>
> Not for MinGW, for MSYS. The autotools you run are MSYS tools, and
> MSYS is a fork of Cygwin; Cygwin tools expect Unix-style EOLs, yes.
I see, MinGW is a compiler collection and MSYS is the tooling twiddle,
thanks for the explanation.
One observation so far: The Emacs executable can't find its own info
files! It seems that in the info viewer are only core utils.
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany
- Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/12
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/12
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/12
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/12
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10,
H. Dieter Wilhelm <=
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/10/13
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/14
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/10/17
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/10/17
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/14
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/14
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/14
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/15
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/15
- Re: Installing the current emacs-28 branch under Windows 10, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/16