bug#7167: 23.2; w32-shell-execute doc

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:12:47 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, sean.sieger@gmail.com, 7167@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:15:55 +0200
>> > Cc: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>, 7167@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >
>> > [Sean, I've Cc:ed you because you're doing binary tarballs now]
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 05:57, Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Juanma, let me know if I can help troubleshoot this.
>> >
>> > I think it is an issue with the binary distribution of Emacs 23.2 for
>> > Windows, not with 23.2 per se, because I have my own build of it and
>> > the problem is not present.
>> >
>> > Likely the fix will simply be to rebuild the official binary
>> > distribution of 23.2.
>>
>> Not sure, because my binary, which I built myself, also has this
>> problem.
>>
>> Will try to investigate tomorrow.
>
> Found the problem.  There's nothing wrong with the Windows build
> system per se.  The problem is that emacs-23.2 tarball comes with a
> src/buildobj.h from a Unix system where it was tarred, which is
> baaaaad, and not only on Windows.  This causes Make not to create
> src/buildobj.h as suitable for the actual build on the target
> platform, and the rest is history.

Very good.

What impact can this have other than what we know now?