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: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:27:07 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <68c73b1a04090922577174ce96@mail.gmail.com> References: <68c73b1a040907231014b3190d@mail.gmail.com> <01c495b8$Blat.v2.2.2$073bd7e0@zahav.net.il> <01c4961f$Blat.v2.2.2$d9a2e360@zahav.net.il> <68c73b1a04090821582822efe1@mail.gmail.com> <01c496a0$Blat.v2.2.2$4f118ae0@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094795847 21085 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 05:57:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 07:57:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5ePP-00038N-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5eUl-0005iF-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5eUd-0005hI-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5eUc-0005h0-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5eUc-0005gq-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.170.205] (helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5ePE-0003BC-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 74so536673rnk for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.22.67 with SMTP id 67mr1725968rnv; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.102.67 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c496a0$Blat.v2.2.2$4f118ae0@zahav.net.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26944 On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:06:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:28:13 +0530 > > From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy > > Cc: Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > The value of srcdir is ".". > > Only as long as you don't say "nmake srcdir=/something/else". > > > And a "cd ." on W2K using MSVC gives and error: > > > > cd .; makeinfo pgg.texi > > The system cannot find the path specified. > > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x1' > > I can hardly believe that the reason is "cd .", because the same > command works fine on Windows from the CMD's prompt. Can you try that > on your system and see if it fails from CMD's prompt as well (I don't > have NMAKE to try it here). > The combination of commands fails in CMD.exe. A simple way to test is as follows: D:\tmp\build\emacs\emacs\lisp dky@MATRIXDEI$ cd . ; dir The system cannot find the path specified. If you need "cd .", we have to do it on seperate lines. ex: cd $(srcdir) $(MAKEINFO) pgg.texi and not: cd $(srcdir) ;$(MAKEINFO) pgg.texi -dhruva -- ________________________________________ Dhruva Krishnamurthy Proud FSF member: #1935 http://schemer.fateback.com/