RE: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-07-04 Thread Vincent Belaïche
FYI I have made a trial with a close to latest version of EMACS and that does not change what I get.   Vincent. From: vincent@hotmail.fr To: ba...@cs.nuim.ie Subject: RE: Patch to makefile-temp Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:07:54 +0200 CC: bbdb-info

Re: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-04 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
If the autotools-based stuff doesn't work on MSWindows, please report the details. That would be a bug, and we should be able to fix it, because autotools-generated scripts are intended to work in that environment (given an installed bourne-compatible shell, and make), and they are doing nothing

RE: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-04 Thread Vincent Belaïche
had put forward (using mingw32-make instead of msys make and $(CURDIR) instead of `pwd` would probably make it, but I did not try...)   Vincent. Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:29:38 +0100 Subject: Re: Patch to makefile-temp From: ba...@cs.nuim.ie

RE: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-04 Thread Vincent Belaïche
year or so ago. VBR,    Vincent. From: vincent@hotmail.fr To: ba...@cs.nuim.ie CC: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Patch to makefile-temp Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:24:38 +0200 That has not to do with autoload tools, but with not using

Re: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-03 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Hello Roland, The 1st question should be why I don't simply use only forward slashes under MSYS. As you know forward slashes are supported by MSWindows. This is a separate issue from converting from an MSYS path like (call it /p/ ): /c/Programme/GNU/installation/bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp to a

Re: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-03 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue Jun 3 2014 Vincent Belaïche wrote: Anyway, you are right in mentioning that my patch has some border effect on other systems than MSYS. Please find herein attached an updated patch. I am sorry, I am still not excited about this. The idea about lisp/makefile-temp has been to keep it

Re: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-02 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Sorry for the mistake, my intention was to send the diff file, not the modified makefile-temp. Hello, Not sure whether I have ever submitted this. This patch is supposed to smooth installation from repo with Windows + MSYS, without any border effect when MSYS is not there. Backward

Re: Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-02 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Jun 2 2014 Vincent Belaïche wrote: - --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file '`pwd`/$@')' \ + --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file $(cur_dir)\\$@)' \ How is the backslash supposed to work on unix-like systems? Am I missing something?

Patch to makefile-temp

2014-06-01 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Hello, Not sure whether I have ever submitted this. This patch is supposed to smooth installation from repo with Windows + MSYS, without any border effect when MSYS is not there. Backward compatility is ensured by testing environment variable OSTYPE to be msys --- which is supposed to be the case