-----Original Message----- From: Norbert Koch [mailto:n.koch＠delta-ii.de] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 4:14 PM To: xemacs-nt Cc: XEmacs Mailing List Subject: [FAILURE] 21.2.13 on WinNT ---------------------------------------------------- Hi, the current CVS sources can't be built on WinNT due to the followin error: ..\src\ntproc.c(691) : error C2166: l-value specifies const object The message is correct, because in function /* When a new child process is created we need to register it in our list, so intercept spawn requests. */ int sys_spawnve (int mode, CONST char *cmdname, CONST char * CONST *argv, CONST char *CONST *envp) { We have the following assignment ... /* make sure argv[0] and cmdname are both in DOS format */ unixtodos_filename ((char*)cmdname); /* #### KLUDGE */ argv[0] = cmdname; Do we absolutely need this kludge? In this case we can't use a const pointer to const char in the arglist ... Anybody? 'norbert.