buildobj.lst and Windows builds - a tiny bit of help needed?

[Ken Raeburn]

As part of trying to make CANNOT_DUMP builds work better, I want to  
have the list of object files, currently written into buildobj.lst by  
make and read back by temacs during loadup, compiled into the  
executable instead.  (Snarf-documentation needs the list to know which  
bits of documentation to extract from the generated DOC file, since  
some symbols appear in multiple source files.)  I've created a simple  
patch to create a header file on UNIX that doc.c can include to get  
the list instead of opening a file and growing a buffer to read the  
contents into; it just needs to define one macro that expands to a  
string initializer.  I've made an attempt to write the changes for the  
Windows build process, but I don't currently have a machine to test  
them, especially with all the permutations of make versions and shells  
to run under them.

Could someone with the relevant expertise and/or equipment please take  
a minute and let me know the right way to make this change?  I think  
it should be pretty straightforward, as you can see from the changes  
in the attached diff, but it does involve make commands that have to  
write double-quotes and backslashes to files (and thus get the quoting  
right), and an object file list that is supposedly too long to process  
on one command line...

Ken

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