* ediff merge fails on Win2K - RESOLVED!
@ 2003-03-25 17:11 Eric Pement
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From: Eric Pement @ 2003-03-25 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Several minutes ago, I sent in a bug report about ediff-merge-files
failing on a Win2K machine using GNU Emacs 21.2.1. Specifically,
Emacs complained that "diff3.exe" could not be executed, even though
"diff3" was the proper version, was on the Windows PATH, and even
though ediff-compare-files had worked successfully in the past.
As I looked at the error message which I had to paste in with
continuation lines because it would have been unreadably long, it
occurred to me that perhaps this long line was the cause of the
problem. In Windows 2000, the default environment setting for the
TEMP variable is "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp". Of course, the
%USERPROFILE% is expanded to "C:\Documents and Settings\username",
and three copies of this string (plus 3 different filenames) are
appended to the diff3 command, thus creating a very long line.
Here's how I resolved it:
I manually created C:\TEMP (which is not in Windows 2K by default).
I altered the TEMP variable to point to C:\TEMP. That's all I did;
now everything works.
My recommendation: I recommend that the ediff fuction calculate the
length of the command line which will be sent to CMD.EXE, before the
command is actually sent. If the length of the command line is
greater than CMD.EXE allows, issue an error message suggesting that
the user reduce the length of the TEMP environment variable. Thanks
for listening.
--
Eric Pement - pemente[at]northpark.edu, eric.pement[at]moody.edu
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