Re: Build error: "nmake info" in "emacs/man"

[Dhruva Krishnamurthy]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:06:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:28:13 +0530
> > From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >
> > The value of srcdir is ".".
> 
> Only as long as you don't say "nmake srcdir=/something/else".
> 
> > And a "cd ." on W2K using MSVC gives and error:
> >
> >         cd .; makeinfo pgg.texi
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x1'
> 
> I can hardly believe that the reason is "cd .", because the same
> command works fine on Windows from the CMD's prompt.  Can you try that
> on your system and see if it fails from CMD's prompt as well (I don't
> have NMAKE to try it here).
> 

The combination of commands fails in CMD.exe. A simple way to test is
as follows:
D:\tmp\build\emacs\emacs\lisp
address@hidden cd . ; dir
The system cannot find the path specified.

If you need "cd .", we have to do it on seperate lines.
ex:
cd $(srcdir)
$(MAKEINFO) pgg.texi

and not:
cd $(srcdir) ;$(MAKEINFO) pgg.texi


-dhruva
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