Re: init_buffer PWD fix

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Keiichiro Nagano wrote:

> 3. type nmake.  After you have done temacs.exe and emacs.exe, You
>    will get an error like this:
> 
>         "C:\home\tmp\emacs-21.2\leim/../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l C:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/leim/../lisp/international/titdic-cnv  --eval "(batch-titdic-convert t)"  -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
> 
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir (c:/emacs/bin/) does not exist.
> Warning: arch-independent data dir (c:/emacs/etc/) does not exist.
> Converting c:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/nt/CXTERM-DIC to quail-package...
> Opening input file: no such file or directory, c:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/nt/CXTERM-DIC
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\home\tmp\emacs-21.2\leim/../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> 
> Why c:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/nt/CXTERM-DIC?  CXTERM-DIC is at
> c:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/leim.  Because chdir ../leim is done in
> makefile, and Emacs uses wrong PWD c:/home/tmp/emacs-21.2/nt to open
> ./CXTERM-DIC.  With the patch I post, this error will never happen.

Thanks.

I think the proper fix for this is to make the test init_buffer does more 
reliable on Windows.  But I'll let Jason and Andrew decide what's the 
best course of action here.