From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man" Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:28:13 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <68c73b1a04090821582822efe1@mail.gmail.com> References: <68c73b1a040907231014b3190d@mail.gmail.com> <01c495b8$Blat.v2.2.2$073bd7e0@zahav.net.il> <01c4961f$Blat.v2.2.2$d9a2e360@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094705914 3115 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2004 04:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 06:58:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5H0u-00018R-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:58:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5H6D-0004vi-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5H67-0004vZ-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5H65-0004vG-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5H65-0004vD-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.170.195] (helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5H0g-00051z-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so329861rnk for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.86.66 with SMTP id j66mr3255864rnb; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.102.67 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4961f$Blat.v2.2.2$d9a2e360@zahav.net.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26916 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26916 On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:47:18 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Cc: Dhruva Krishnamurthy , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> > > Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:59:44 +0200 > > > > > I don't think this patch is good to install: it breaks the build > > > outside the source tree. > > > > Do you refer to "../info" instead of "$(infodir)"? > > No, I mean the fact that "cd ${srcdir}" was omitted from the commands > that build the Info manuals. The value of srcdir is ".". And a "cd ." on W2K using MSVC gives and error: cd .; makeinfo pgg.texi The system cannot find the path specified. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x1' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code ' Stop. To avoid this, I had to remove the 'cd' part. with regards, dhruva -- ________________________________________ Dhruva Krishnamurthy Proud FSF member: #1935 http://schemer.fateback.com/