Re: forking issue on Windows XP?

Re: forking issue on Windows XP?

[Lennart Borgman]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

>>I have had some troubles with the path formats and I hope you can
>>excuse me for mentioning this in this thread. These troubles related
>>to building Emacs on w32. I wanted to build with MSYS but it failed.
>>As far as I could see this was because of the file path conversions.
>>Therefore I have been following this thread with some interest. (I
>>had the insane idea of building MSYS myself.)
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Have you tried the mingwPORT for emacs?  See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82721&release_id=295947 for the file to download. BTW, building MSYS isn't that insane of an idea.
>  
>
Sorry, I did not have the ability to test this before. Well, most of it 
runs well. I see no changes from the tests I made before (without the 
scripts you added). The same point fails as before, building of autoloads:

"./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
autoload \
    --eval '(setq find-file-hook nil \
        find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
        generated-autoload-file \
          "/d/emacscvs/msys/src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' \
    -f batch-update-autoloads /d/emacscvs/msys/src/emacs/lisp calc 
calendar emacs-lisp emulation eshell gnus international language mail 
mh-e net obsolete play progmodes term textmodes toolbar url
Opening output file: no such file or directory, 
d:/d/emacscvs/msys/src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el

This comes from the following in the Makefile in the lisp subdirectory:

lisp = $(CURDIR)
...
autoloads: loaddefs.el doit
    @echo Directories: $(WINS)
    $(emacs) -l autoload \
        --eval $(ARGQUOTE)(setq find-file-hook nil \
            find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
            generated-autoload-file \
              $(DQUOTE)$(lisp)/loaddefs.el$(DQUOTE))$(ARGQUOTE) \
        -f batch-update-autoloads $(lisp) $(WINS)

As one can see from this script it is actually the output of $(CURDIR) 
that should be changed for this to work. So I misremembered a bit here.

Is there any way to get the current directory in native windows format 
instead?

Kind regards,
Lennart


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