Re: Two problems of building Emacs on windows

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Herbert Euler wrote:
> This is exactly because the existence of `lib-src' in the same directory
> where `etc' exists: please read `init_cmdargs' in main.c.  The inexistence
> causes Emacs not setting `installation-directory' to a proper value but
> leaving it nil, so later in the Emacs' starting up process `doc-directory'
> is left the one in nt\paths.h.
>
> If you create `lib-src' in $(OBJDIR) and copy the file buildobj.lst
> into etc,
> it will not use the "hardcoded paths" and use the correct path instead.

I see. I've restored the original code that creates buildobj.lst in the
src target directory, but the above may still be an undetected problem
for other files, so I'll investigate whether a fix is required in the
emacs-22 branch before making any changes in unicode-2.