From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS22989 209.51.188.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F09C211B4 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 06:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg2Kt-0003FN-3y for normalperson@yhbt.net; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 01:55:03 -0500 Received: from eggsout.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58849 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg2Kp-0003EC-El for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 01:55:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg2Ko-00022N-Np for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 01:54:59 -0500 Received: from mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([2a01:238:20a:202:5300::10]:25997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg2Ko-00021X-8i for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 01:54:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1546757695; s=strato-dkim-0002; d=clisp.org; h=References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From: X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH:From:Subject:Sender; bh=G3+bHqx/4UT3AJm0zwAjlJe8/6KlHeoGphgvxYXxnUc=; b=DFT5tYN1psb3khIH93qt2Ry0Topn4IMEm+lTvZf2K1c2eYaTuGktAXwz63fewsDOlf DQfl51kbp3vArJEanziZnB4WHr1LN4hwcboDTDSSclaoYeEOE+KqDPqkdtmY0nPrZ3Th WmE678Rfalp/Qrv/HbSbG77xQtPws5WEcmA1/sx9IhnhfHyde+6V/0O+TSiHel8dEVPq 0oqygmzbkFlU4kq7kbDxlYj+m/A6kitiOxo6WCu1E6Ym+pW5gCFoHPDnTUEQfh6UzvKk lG6V5rY/RfO2sw9gLlpnDkZnE6/SubgERsDu+VR+B2x92GqSgmYwGKUJ2cnxzGi3H60J JoGg== X-RZG-AUTH: ":Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brlshOcZlIWs+iCP5vnk6shH+AHjwLuWOGKf2y/s=" X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from bruno.haible.de by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 44.9 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id v0a34ev066sr9dn (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (curve secp521r1 with 521 ECDH bits, eq. 15360 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate); Sun, 6 Jan 2019 07:54:53 +0100 (CET) From: Bruno Haible To: Andrew Pennebaker Subject: Re: cmake support Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:54:53 +0100 Message-ID: <2092673.euOoZxz26q@omega> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-141-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4708743.mAexus13G1@kdudka-nb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a01:238:20a:202:5300::10 X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kamil Dudka , bug-gnulib@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+normalperson=yhbt.net@gnu.org Sender: "bug-gnulib" Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > MSVC integration will become more interesting The usual way to do MSVC builds of packages that use Autotools is to use wrapper scripts 'ar-lib' and 'compile' that provide a Unix-y interface to the MSVC compilers. See https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL.windows for how this gets used. > Would be nice to offer NetBSD-style packages for MINIX and SmartOS, in > order to make Gnulib easier to install to a standard include path like with > other development libraries. Is there no 'git' available for these operating systems? The usual way to install Gnulib is through git. See also https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Library-vs-Reusable-Code.html Bruno