From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:21:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <565EF29AD574471187720A71C5ABD45D@us.oracle.com> <83k48awlp1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318429831 30572 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 14:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 16:30:27 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 1RDzp9-0006AX-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDzp9-0008UM-1f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDzp6-0008U8-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDzp0-0006ut-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDzp0-0006um-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDzow-00062L-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:30:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6lXqidocLPjIoswfpg6jO2ao7IU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:145008 Archived-At: on Wed Oct 12 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:18:19 +0200 > >> From: Dani Moncayo >> Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> [c] This starts a make process. Unfortunately, sometimes the process >> stops because it spawns a child "cmd.exe" session (I don't know why). > > It's a problem with the MSYS Make and MSYS Bash. They convert > command-line arguments of the form /x/foo/bar to x:/foo/bar. This > fails miserably when the original command-line argument is not a file > name, e.g., when the Makefile invokes "cmd /c SOMETHING". See > nt/INSTALL, which doesn't recommend MSYS for this very reason. Most options in Windows work if you use "-" instead of "/". If you use "-" in your Makefile you can avoid triggering this issue. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com