From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master b9ac4f8.. (Fix locating pdump by symlink) breaks with stow Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:26:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87imsvuvnr.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> <20190624111050.jindvg6j4hr5j226@Ergus> <20190624122841.vfezkecaxjqwzjy3@Ergus> <83h88fm3w4.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftnynbzd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="58980"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 24 20:27:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTgJ-000FFH-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 20:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTgI-0007Ra-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTfo-0007NX-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTfh-0002Tv-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44410 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTfX-0002HL-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfTfP-000EEE-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 20:26:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:G+0bX+oFiEe0txVcGiAP3CNG3Pw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238113 Archived-At: On Mon 24 Jun 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:52:59 +0300 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > From: Andy Moreton >> > 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