Re: master b9ac4f8.. (Fix locating pdump by symlink) breaks with stow

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 24 Jun 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:52:59 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> > From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:14:47 +0100
>> > 
>> > Building commit 65d45def8d71e50d111adf1141011a5d30a27447 still fails on
>> > MSYS2 (Windows), and adds warnings:
>> 
>> I'm working on this.
>
> Should be fixed now, please test.

Thanks Eli, master builds and runs again.

> The use case with emacs.exe being a symlink to another directory is
> not yet supported on Windows, I will add that later.  (It's a bit
> tricky, as at this early stage of startup the file names are still
> unibyte strings in the current system codepage, so many file-name
> related functions will not work as expected.  But using symlinks to
> executables is relatively rare on Windows, so I thin we can wait for
> this for a few more days.)

Tricky indeed. Perhaps using a unicode command line would help, but I
assume that would require pervasive changes.

    AndyM