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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master b9ac4f8.. (Fix locating pdump by symlink) breaks with stow
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:26:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz1k1daet6p.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83ftnynbzd.fsf@gnu.org

On Mon 24 Jun 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:52:59 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:14:47 +0100
>> > 
>> > Building commit 65d45def8d71e50d111adf1141011a5d30a27447 still fails on
>> > MSYS2 (Windows), and adds warnings:
>> 
>> I'm working on this.
>
> Should be fixed now, please test.

Thanks Eli, master builds and runs again.

> The use case with emacs.exe being a symlink to another directory is
> not yet supported on Windows, I will add that later.  (It's a bit
> tricky, as at this early stage of startup the file names are still
> unibyte strings in the current system codepage, so many file-name
> related functions will not work as expected.  But using symlinks to
> executables is relatively rare on Windows, so I thin we can wait for
> this for a few more days.)

Tricky indeed. Perhaps using a unicode command line would help, but I
assume that would require pervasive changes.

    AndyM




  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-24 10:26 master b9ac4f8.. (Fix locating pdump by symlink) breaks with stow Yuri D'Elia
2019-06-24 11:10 ` Ergus
2019-06-24 11:57   ` Yuri Khan
2019-06-24 12:28     ` Ergus
2019-06-24 13:21       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-06-24 13:50         ` Ergus
2019-06-24 13:54           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-06-24 14:05             ` Ergus
2019-06-24 14:19             ` Ergus
2019-06-24 14:14         ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-24 14:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 16:06             ` dancol
2019-06-24 17:23               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 18:12                 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-06-24 18:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 17:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 18:26               ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2019-06-24 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 16:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 16:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-27 17:45                   ` Ken Brown
2019-06-27 18:36                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-27 19:56                       ` Ken Brown
2019-06-24 15:01           ` Basil L. Contovounesios

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