>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Persico
<persicom(a)acedsl.com> writes:
Matthew> Adrian Aichner wrote:
>
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?
Matthew> Yep. uncalled for. I think someone else complained about same thing with
Matthew> less offensiveness a week earlier.
>> What is your current directory when you run
>> nmake ... -f ...xemacs.mak?
>
Matthew> nt subdirectory
Hmmh? Why do you get a problem when running nmake from the nt
directory. I am lost.
> What is the exact command line you use?
Matthew> nmake install -f xemacs.mak
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?
>
Matthew> Ohh, I must have been in a seriously bad mood that night, but for other
Matthew> reasons. Time to start saving to draft and re-reading the next day
Matthew> before hitting the send button.
Matthew> Actually, I was thinking that a patch would be either:
Matthew> 1)The config script has a macro FULL_XEMACS_SRC path
Matthew> 2)Have the makefile figure it out.
Matthew> One problem I'm having is trying to figure out the equivilent of
'pwd'
Matthew> in NT or how to fake it.
Matthew> The true crux of the problem is that you need to quote programs with
Matthew> spaces in the name or path. When the macro $(FOO) is "..\With
Matthew> Space\i.exe", then adding judicical ..\ (like so: ..\$(FOO))
won't
Matthew> work; you get ..\"..\With Space\i.exe".
Matthew> Come to think of it, FULL_XEMACS_SRC may not work either. If the
Matthew> definition is like "C:\With Spaces\xemacs". then you have the
same
Matthew> problem adding subdirs to the front as adding ..\ to the rear - they get
Matthew> added outside the quotes.
Matthew> So, to answer my own question, it can be very difficult to replace
Matthew> XEMACS=..
:-)
Matthew> Any one have any crow? Or an old hat they don't need? I just got
rather
Matthew> hungry.
For now I have commited a patch which allows building from the nt
directory only.
http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-patches/200010/msg00027.html
Otherwise nmake fails and tells user to run it from the directory
where xemacs.mak is located.
Is that acceptable?
Best regards,
Adrian
Matthew> :=(
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