Re: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.*

[Eric Lilja]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Eric Lilja <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:15:11 +0100
> >
> > > What I meant is this: modify the line in admin/unidate/makefile that
> > > says
> > >
> > >         "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch -f 
> > > batch-byte-compile unidata-gen.el
> > >
> > > to say this instead:
> > >
> > >         "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch --eval "(message 
> > > \"%s\" load-path)"
> > >
> > > and then see what it displays when you run "make bootstrap".
> > >
> > > Note that, since admin/unidate/makefile is generated by "make
> > > bootstrap", you will either need to edit admin/unidate/makefile.w32-in
> > > and then run nt/configure.bat to create admin/unidate/makefile, or
> > > edit admin/unidate/makefile while "make bootstrap" runs, but before it
> > > gets to where it executes the above line.
> > OK, here's what happened. My admin/unidata/makefile was generated after 
> > the configure step, but I couldn't find the line I was supposed to 
> > change so I read your message a little bit more carefully. Ah, and you 
> > said that it's generated during bootstrap so I thought that it would be 
> > modified during bootstrap
>
> No, I was wrong, of course: admin/unidata/makefile is generated during
> the configure step, not during "make bootstrap".  Sorry about that.
>
> > .el.elc:
> >         $(RUNEMACS) -f batch-byte-compile $<
>
> The line to change is the one above, it's a command to compile a .el
> file that is run when Make needs unidata-gen.elc (required by the
> charprop-* rules).

I'm running the bootstrap with the altered makefile right now on a fresh 
 checkout, but I'm not sure I altered the line correctly. Should it be:
.el.elc:
        $(RUNEMACS) -f batch-byte-compile --eval "(message \"%s\" load-path)" $<

Because that's what I'm running the bootstrap now with.