Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>  @echo off
>  del test.txt
>  for %%i in (*.*) do echo "%%i" >> test.txt
>  echo ==========================
>  type test.txt
>  echo ==========================
> 
> Running it in a directory with files file[1-3].bat gives:
> 
>  ==========================
>  "FILE2.BAT"
>  "TEST.TXT"
>  "FILE1.BAT"
>  "FILE3.BAT"
>  ==========================
> 
> However, substituting the "for" with:
> 
>  for %%i in (*.*) do if 1==1 echo "%%i" >> test.txt
> 
> the result is now:
> 
>  "TEST.TXT"
>  "FILE1.BAT"
>  "FILE3.BAT"
>  ==========================
>  "FILE2.BAT"
>  ==========================

Is this really directly related to the actual problem?  What I see in the 
example is that writes to the screen are out of order; how does this 
explain the problem with the build which I thought was caused by the list 
of files beaing shorter than it should have been?