From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com, reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man"
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:22:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c49717$Blat.v2.2.2$cb768280@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uacvy8tjp.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (message from Jason Rumney on Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:10 +0100)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:10 +0100
>
> Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The combination of commands fails in CMD.exe. A simple way to test is
> > as follows:
> > D:\tmp\build\emacs\emacs\lisp
> > dky@MATRIXDEI$ cd . ; dir
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> >
> > If you need "cd .", we have to do it on seperate lines.
>
> Right, and that fails in GNU make, which is why the Windows build does
> not support building Emacs out of the tree.
Okay, if out-of-source builds are not supported on Windows, then I
withdraw my objections.
(One way to support the out of source tree build is to invoke CMD
explicitly and use the CMD's method of chaining multiple commands on
the same command line. A project for a volunteer, I guess.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 6:10 Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man" Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-09-08 12:58 ` Reiner Steib
2004-09-08 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-08 16:59 ` Reiner Steib
2004-09-09 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-09 4:58 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-09-09 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-10 5:57 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-09-10 7:36 ` Jason Rumney
2004-09-10 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-09-10 9:38 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-09-10 11:20 ` Jason Rumney
2004-09-10 12:51 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-09-10 13:44 ` Reiner Steib
2004-09-10 18:08 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-09-10 19:11 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-09-11 13:57 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-09-09 10:44 ` Reiner Steib
2004-09-09 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-09 7:34 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
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