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Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc
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John covici |
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Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc |
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Wed, 8 Apr 2009 06:53:40 -0400 |
Well, its the one installed with msys and that's where it gets its cp
and rm, go figure.
on Wednesday 04/08/2009 Eli Zaretskii(address@hidden) wrote
> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:05:28 -0400
> > From: John covici <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > OK, by making sure cmd.exe was first in the path and renaming sh.exe
> > temporarily, it did work
>
> Good.
>
> > -- however I wonder, if sh.exe does not work,
> > why does the makefile try to use it? I would have thought sh.exe
> > would have been better.
>
> The Windows port of GNU Make always tries to use sh.exe if it sees it
> on Path, it always did that. It assumes that your sh.exe port is
> fully functional and compatible with the rest of the development
> tools, and it knows that a Unixy shell provides more features than
> cmd. This has nothing to do with Emacs.
>
> The Emacs Windows configury also tries to find a Unixy shell first,
> for the same reasons. For compatible ports of the shell, the Emacs
> build does work.
>
> It appears that your sh.exe is somehow incompatible. The file
> nt/INSTALL lists combinations of various tools, including the shell,
> which are known to build Emacs successfully. Perhaps yours is not one
> of them.
>
--
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John Covici
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- 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, John covici, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, John covici, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, John covici, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, John covici, 2009/04/07
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/08
- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc,
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- Re: 23.0.92 fails to build on Vista using gcc, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/08