Re: Building Emacs from a new MinGW environment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:32:09 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> >  test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && srcdir=`(cd "$srcdir"; pwd -W | sed -e 
> > 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/\1,')`
> >
> > It should produce srcdir in the /d/foo/bar format.
> 
> It didn't produce that format, because the configure script generated
> by "autogen.sh" a slightly different version of that line: the square
> brackets in "[A-Za-z]" were removed.
> 
> I managed to get the intended conversion with this line in "configure.ac":
> 
>   test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && srcdir=`(cd "$srcdir"; pwd -W | sed
> -e 's,^\([[A-Za-z]]\):,/\1,')`
> 
> With that change, now the only problems remaining are the crashes I
> get much later in the bootstraping, when Emacs compiles certain Elisp
> files.

I have now installed this change in configure.ac, with a suitable
commentary.

Thanks.