Re: CVS HEAD fails to build on OSX 10.4 (macterm.c broken?)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Someone who is really familiar with multi-tty should explain why
>> > preloading lisp/term/*-win.el was necessary for multi-tty.
>> I don't know the reason for it but it does strike me that the probability
>> that mac-win.el will be used in a Carbon build is very high (similarly for
>> w32-win.el and x-win.el in their respective builds I guess).

> The *-win.el files are supposed to be used _only_ for the windowed
> sessions.  If some build produces only a non-windowed version (like
> the --without-x on Posix platforms), then the respective *-win.el
> should NOT be required.

Of course not.  But if the build does support the Carbon|w32|X11 interface,
then it makes sense to preload (mac|w32|x)-win.el even if the user will
occasionally run with -nw in which case the file will not be used.


        Stefan