Re: 23.0; Error in generated makefile on windows xp

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:25 +0000
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Christoph Conrad wrote:
> > Current CVS emacs, Visual Studio .NET 2003.
> >
> > .\configure.bat  --with-msvc --without-png --without-jpeg --without-gif --without-tiff --without-xpm
> >
> > ,----
> > | ifdef USE_FONTBACKEND
> > | FONTOBJ = $(BLD)/w32font.$(O)
> > | endif
> > `----
> >
> > in "src\makefile" should be
> >
> > ,----
> > | !ifdef USE_FONTBACKEND
> > | FONTOBJ = $(BLD)/w32font.$(O)
> > | !endif
> > `----
> >
> > '!' is missing at two places.
> >   
> 
> If someone can come up with a simple fix that does not break the build 
> when using GNU make/gcc, then it can be installed

One way of fixing this would be to move this conditional into
gamke.defs and nmake.defs, where one can use the syntax appropriate
for each flavor of Make.