From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few Windows build fixes Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:32 -0400 Message-ID: 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; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314632926 31884 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2011 15:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Hannu Koivisto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 17:48:42 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 1Qy44k-0007vV-Kh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:48:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy44j-0002vE-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy44g-0002uH-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy44f-00046e-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:49757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy44f-00046Y-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([96.22.109.87]) by VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0LQP00KQT58WWX10@VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5C853660B6; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:48:32 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <83r5444ome.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:143629 Archived-At: >> 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. Stefan