Re: make dist target for Windows

[Christoph]

On 4/2/2010 2:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> First, in the GNU project's terminology, ``a path'' is a list of
> directories such as is found in PATH or in INFOPATH.  What you mean
> here is ``a file name'', not a path.
>    
Got it.
> Second, you say ``files'', in plural, which begs a question: how to
> specify more than one such DLL?  Do you use several --distfiles
> options?
>    
Good question. In this latest version of the patch I added support for 
multiple --distfiles arguments.

> It would be nice if you said whether it's necessary to use forward
> slashes here.
Actually, I don't need to use forward slashes for distfiles. I updated 
this. I had an issue with compiler flags though, where I want to say I 
needed to specify them with forward slashes. I have to look into that 
some more.

> Also, since the files are copied to the `bin'
> directory, perhaps you should tell explicitly that this option is for
> DLLs that are not built as part of Emacs, e.g. image libraries.  Your
> current description sounds like the option is more general, which it
> really isn't.
>    
I updated this part in INSTALL.

Find v4 of the patch attached.

Major changes:
- configure.bat takes multiple --distfiles arguments for packaging more 
than one library in the binary distribution
- configure.bat verifies that all specified distfiles exist and warns if 
they don't
- updated INSTALL documentation


BTW, Eli, thanks for taking the time to review this with such attention 
to detail. I appreciate it.

Christoph

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