Re: Failure to build 21.2.b36 in W2K

Matthew> Matthew Persico wrote: >> >> Adrian Aichner wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > Matthew, >> > >> > have you tried >> > nmake -f xemacs.mak distclean >> > before building >> > nmake -f xemacs.mak [all|install] >> > ? >> >> The build failure was in a just-expanded distibution, so that shouldn't >> have been a problem, but I will try it just in case. >> The other thing I'm going to do is rebuild xpm from the sources. I have >> the pre-compiled win32 libraries installed for xplm,png, tiff, etc. >> Maybe it won't help, but I'm the type of guy that the first thing I do >> after installing a linux distro is trash the RPMs of perl and rebuild >> it. Source is king. >> >> Will advise when complete. Matthew> COMPLETE! But who the hell screwed up the references to Matthew, don't you think you're a bit offensive in your choice of language? What is your current directory when you run nmake ... -f ...xemacs.mak? What is the exact command line you use? When I try to reproduce this, nmake fails very early[1], not being able to find ..\version.sh. Why doesn't this happen for you? Matthew> i.exe? How difficult could it be to replace Matthew> XEMACS=.. with the real damn path so that no references Matthew> are relative and dependent on where you've cd'ed to? Too difficult for you to send a patch, maybe? Adrian Matthew> -- Matthew> Matthew O. Persico Matthew> "If you were supposed to understand it, Matthew> we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx Matthew> ____________NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_________ Matthew> Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Matthew> Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 Matthew> ___________________________________________________________ Footnotes: [1] cd d:\tmp\21.2\xemacs\ nmake -n -f d:\tmp\21.2\xemacs\nt\xemacs.mak all Compilation started at Sat Oct 07 10:12:35 2000 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. d:\tmp\21.2\xemacs\nt\xemacs.mak(46) : fatal error U1052: file '..\version.sh' not found Stop. Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sat Oct 07 10:12:35 -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;, http://www.xemacs.org