Re: Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man"

[Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:22:04 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, reiner.steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:10 +0100
> 
> 
> >
> > Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > 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.

I found an alternate way to do that:
cd $(srcdir) & $(MAKEINFO) pgg.texi
Replace the ';' with '&' and things works with nmake! I tried it in
the makefile.w32-in

> > Right, and that fails in GNU make, which is why the Windows build does
> > not support building Emacs out of the tree.
> 
> Okay, if out-of-source builds are not supported on Windows, then I
> withdraw my objections.
> 
> (One way to support the out of source tree build is to invoke CMD
> explicitly and use the CMD's method of chaining multiple commands on
> the same command line.  A project for a volunteer, I guess.)
> 

Let me know the desired behaviour (what out of source build means), I
will be able to do that.

-dhruva

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