Re: lost argument and doc string

[Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>]

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:37:40 +0200: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:

> > From: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:34:14 +0100
> > 
> > > Is it possible that the change in the way doc strings are put in C files 
> > > confuses the Windows port, either the make-docfile program or Emacs 
> > > itself?
> > 
> > Maybe, but then why some docstrings can be seen just fine?
> 
> Because some doc strings come from Lisp files?
> 
> But that's a stab in the dark; it would be nice if someone could step
> with a debugger through the offending code and see what's going on
> there.

A debugger was found to be helpless in this particular case.  I think
I found the real cause of the problem.  The first suspected culprit
make-docfile turned out to be innocent by borrowing the make-docfile
from 21.1.90 produced the same result.  The real problem is in
makefile.w32-in.  I don't know much about how make-docfile operates
but it obviously expects some .elc files instead of .el files.  By
comparing the makefile with the one in 21.1.90 and restoring those elc
definitions in lisp= macro the lost doc strings are recovered.

I suppose the following change in lib-src/ChangeLog is responsible
for this.

-Tak


2001-11-30  Andrew Innes  <andrewi@gnu.org>

	* makefile.w32-in (FACE_SUPPORT):
	(MOUSE_SUPPORT):
	(FLOAT_SUPPORT):
	(WINNT_SUPPORT):
	(lisp): Reference .el files instead of .elc files, to simplify
	bootstrapping.
	($(DOC)): Change dependency to just `make-docfile'.

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