From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few Windows build fixes Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:12:53 +0530 Message-ID: <87pqjmfgia.fsf@gmail.com> References: <83vcth40ik.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <83r5444ome.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314758593 5946 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 02:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hannu Koivisto , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 04:43:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyalh-0004V5-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:43:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyalf-0007p6-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyalc-0007oi-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyalb-0003tK-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:50792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyalb-0003sw-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: by gyg10 with SMTP id 10so223880gyg.0 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:43:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=AxWbthhNxk5tfIPfTKUWVouA9rrq3JpXdswA0MbgqsM=; b=DA/C+OMMTENb6Uk9lm8dVyKmkK1Nhg7pN9uELFGzN1QkynFtrNyU19fPL4gnQ5tNpw CmLUjRSo69HaSZ8SOAwMEPn3ls2vh8bWaBvzl8i06ia85cDmc7/hpiovnJL1jbTVfzpy ktHONfr4ys1nwvHPH0COTqdp/RLfuL7yoCbOc= Original-Received: by 10.143.60.13 with SMTP id n13mr3560639wfk.373.1314758581689; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from BALROG ([59.92.50.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z12sm3498867wfn.11.2011.08.30.19.42.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:42:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143649 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> It's true that the Cygwin build of Make doesn't support c:/foo in >>> targets, but the Windows Makefiles never use such targets, except >>> through $(CURDIR), which should return a Cygwin style file name with >>> Cygwin Make. So I don't really see a problem that needs to be solved >>> here. Perhaps I'm missing something; please show the actual problems >>> you had with this part. >> CURDIR-based paths are passed to native Emacs for load path >> purposes and if they have /cygdrive/ stuff in them, Emacs doesn't >> understand that. > > There's a general need for Emacs to understand/accept /cygdrive/foo > names passed on the command-line, so that could be fixed in > lisp/startup.el and lisp/w32*.el. There's cygwin-mount.el available as an elpa package in one of http://tromey.com/elpa or http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/ which works in most cases. > Stefan > -- Cheers ~vijay Gnus should be more complicated.