Subject: Re: bug#71801: emacs 29.4 windows binaries

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:26:32 +0300

> From: Corwin Brust <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 11:49:04 -0500
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 11:33 AM Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU
> Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Since there's no way for Emacs to know whether
> > the user seeing such a warning is one kind or
> > the other, consider including info such as this
> > in the warning (or linked from it, if it needs
> > to be a one-liner):
> >
> >   There's a problem with this Emacs installation.
> >   If you installed a binary distro then please
> >   report it to whoever produced the distro.
> >
> 
> I think that's an intriguing suggestion.

The problem, of course, is that the above is only close to the reality
on MS-Windows, and only for users who don't already have a full-blown
development environment based on GCC capable of compiling programs,
independently of installing Emacs.  In all other cases, problems such
as this one will not be caused by the Emacs installation, and so
saying "there's a problem with this Emacs installation" will be
incorrect and misleading.