GNU bug report logs - #19989
25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse <at> ilyaz.org>

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:48:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #116 received at 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 09:07:59 -0700

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 11:04:46AM +0100, martin rudalics wrote:
> >> The problem is that most users are trying to be clever.  At least I did
> >> and AFAICT Ilya did too.
> >
> > Yes — the first 8 times.  The last try was by following the
> > instructions literally (as close as I can after 9 hours of
> > unsuccessful trying).
> >
> >>   That's of no help.  What's really needed is a
> >> stubborn, dense person who complains immediately when something doesn't
> >> work out as written in INSTALL.
> >
> > This is exactly what I do.
> 
> You didn't.

I disagree — and I believe I know more about what I did or did not than you.

> Otherwise, you would have started right away "by following
> the instructions literally".

Sorry, I can make no sense out of this “sillogism”.

Ilya
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