From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs/lispref/Makefile.in: Minor fix for MS Win port Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:12:46 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F45DE8E.6070709@gnu.org> References: <20030820043257.83A49785D5@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061572804 5854 80.91.224.253 (22 Aug 2003 17:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 19:20:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19qFZy-0008V5-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:20:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19qFeE-0002EB-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:24:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19qEGk-0001Yj-1u for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19qA2O-0002sn-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19q9wv-0001WG-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.173.204] (helo=integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19q8vF-00020e-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 5058 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2003 09:05:40 -0000 Original-Received: from host217-37-167-241.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO ntserver.altio.com) (217.37.167.241) by 66.216.96.43 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2003 09:05:40 -0000 Original-Received: from gnu.org (ALTIOJR [192.168.111.42]) by ntserver.altio.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RLBVSTQM; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:12:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, ja Original-To: dhruva In-Reply-To: <20030820043257.83A49785D5@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16068 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16068 dhruva wrote: > Hello, > The Makefile.in in emacs/lispref has a small problem on MS Windows port. The MS-Windows port does not use Makefile.in, I am surprised you got it working this far. > If it finds 'ln', it uses it and created a symbolic link to the original > file BUT with a ".lnk" extension. That is correct for Cygwin I think. Does renaming the file actually work? Because Windows shortcuts (the equivalent of symbolic links) use the file extension to identify themselves, I think renaming it would prevent the shortcut from being recognised as such. It would be better to write a Makefile-w32.in that takes care of the vast differences between Windows and Unix. Someone is already doing that for emacs/man, so that could be used as a template once it is ready.