From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:22:04 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <01c49717$Blat.v2.2.2$cb768280@zahav.net.il> References: <68c73b1a040907231014b3190d@mail.gmail.com> <01c495b8$Blat.v2.2.2$073bd7e0@zahav.net.il> <01c4961f$Blat.v2.2.2$d9a2e360@zahav.net.il> <68c73b1a04090821582822efe1@mail.gmail.com> <01c496a0$Blat.v2.2.2$4f118ae0@zahav.net.il> <68c73b1a04090922577174ce96@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094808245 13684 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 09:24:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com, reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 11:23:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5hdM-0004d8-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:23:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5hij-0008Ii-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5hia-0008IR-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5hiY-0008I7-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5hiX-0008I4-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5hcr-0004mX-0d; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.141.72]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DUE50103 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:23:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Jason Rumney X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (message from Jason Rumney on Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:10 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26949 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Jason Rumney > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:10 +0100 > > Dhruva Krishnamurthy 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.)