From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:06:45 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <7263-Fri30Aug2002220645+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <20020730.235911.01367475.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <20020830135553.852A.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030734315 19847 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2002 19:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17kr50-0005A0-00 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17krbu-0004oe-00 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kr6O-00020n-00; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:06:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kr4l-0001zO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kr4e-0001z2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from heimdall.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.17]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kr4e-0001yv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Zaretsky ([80.230.2.40]) by heimdall.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.58-GA) with ESMTP id BSH49786; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:04:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: lektu@terra.es X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: <20020830135553.852A.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:14:19 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7173 > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:14:19 +0200 > > > echo (normal-top-level-add-to-load-path $(SQUOTE)(>> subdirs.el > > @for %d in ($(WINS)) do if not (%d)==(term) echo "%d">> subdirs.el > > echo ))>> subdirs.el > > Before commiting this code to lisp/makefile.w32-in, "nmake > update-subdirs" didn't work in any Windows target that I tried. With it, > updating subdirs works in modern Windows, but still fails on W95 with > COMMAND.COM (the "for" somehow manages to send just one directory to > subdirs.el). Can you figure out why is that failing? Could it be that $WINS is so long that the resulting command exceeds the 126-character limit on COMMAND.COM's command line, for example? > I'm not sure about W98 and Me, although I'd love to know. They both use COMMAND.COM, so the same problems should show up. > There's no question that the Windows port should continue supporting > *running* in old W95 and W98 machines, but it is really worthwhile to > continue supporting *building* on those machines? IMHO, if it's feasible to support building on those systems, we should do that. Windows 98 SE is still a very popular version of Windows (I, for one, prefer it to both Windows/ME and W2K/XP). > I'd bet Emacs users on W95/98 do use binary tarballs and don't build > their own Emacs. I think _most_ Windows users download prebuilt binaries, even on W2K and Windows/XP.