From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: addpm.c: DdeConnect() without timeout Date: 03 May 2004 11:45:15 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1083564435.20498.185520391@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083582225 23058 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 11:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 03 13:03:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKbEZ-0001in-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 13:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKbEY-0005ni-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 13:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKbBR-0002iz-Jk for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 07:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKbAB-0002eh-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKazO-0000Wk-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BKawr-0008Hu-1T; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43AjJU9008556; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:45:19 +0100 Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A0EDDF67; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:45:19 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" In-Reply-To: <1083564435.20498.185520391@webmail.messagingengine.com> Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22605 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22605 "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" writes: > Hello, > I had reported a problem with addpm.exe on W2K. I am building CVS HEAD > using MinGW-GCC and MSVC6 and face the same problem of addpm.exe getting > stuck duing "nmake (gmake) install". > I found that it is getting stuck in DdeConnect(). I am not aware of DDE > mechanism but feel we should have a time out. Since "addpm.exe" is trivia > and does not affect the working of GNU Emacs, the install should progress > even if "addpm.exe" fails. If you can find where in the addpm code it is failing, we can catch whatever problem it is and do something appropriate. Could it be due to access rights to the Start Menu or registry? > Also, I noticed "gmake info" failes on MinGW-GCC on W2K. The problem is > with backslash ("\") in makefile.w32-in at target "info:". Changing it > to forward slashes "/", fixes this problem. nmake seems to accept either, so I've installed this fix.