Re: 23.1.94 ms windows build failure

[Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>]

On 3/22/2010 7:46 PM, Sean Sieger wrote:
> Thank you for replying, Christoph.  Right, after unpacking the pretest
> tarball, I copied admin/ to emacs-23.1.94.
>    
Okay, so then forget about pointing it to the trunk. This should work.

C:\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt

should be right then.

> But you also mentioned in another thread something about producing an
> empty file, no?  What solved that?  Because running makedist produces
> empty bin and barebin zips.
>    
It produces empty zips when it can't find a file or has another error.

In your earlier emails the error was:

The system cannot find the path specified.
         0 file(s) copied.


This looks like it can't find the README.W32 that it is trying to copy 
to the root directory.

I did the following:

Extracted tarball to D:\emacs-23.1.94
Copied admin from trunk to D;\emacs-23.1.94
Copied makedist.bat from D:\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt to D:\
Ran makedist 23.1.94 emacs-23.1.94 D:\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt

Output:
D:\>makedist 23.1.94 emacs-23.1.94 D:\devel\emacs\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt bin
Create full bin distribution
         1 file(s) copied.

7-Zip [64] 9.11 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-03-15

Scanning

Updating archive emacs-23.1.94-bin-i386.zip

Compressing  emacs-23.1.94\bin\addpm.exe
Compressing  emacs-23.1.94\bin\cmdproxy.exe
Compressing  emacs-23.1.94\bin\COPYING
Compressing  emacs-23.1.94\bin\ctags.exe
Compressing  emacs-23.1.94\bin\ddeclient.exe


Christoph