Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing

[grischka <grishka@gmx.de>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 23:26:54 +0200
>> From: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>
>> CC:  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>>> Emacs still supports older Windows versions where the shell is
>>> command.com [...]
>> Actually no, for more than one reason.  One being that GNU
>> make expands it's full path with forward slashes into $(MAKE)
>> which would do just nothing at all under command.com.
> 
> I didn't say we support _building_ Emacs on those platforms.  But we
> do support _running_ Emacs there.  If you know of any problems that
> would preclude that, please report them.

Since it didn't build I really can't tell whether it runs.

> (Btw, for the specific problem of Make, its Windows port will never
> use command.com as a shell.  

Sure it does.  Hence the problem with slashes, as above.

> Either you have a Unixy shell on your
> Path or you need to have cmd.exe.  So for building on such a system,
> the only way it can possibly work is if one has a sh.exe somewhere.)