Re: NT mingw/msys build problem

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>

: I do not believe that everything can be done from with cmd.exe as the
shell.
: The problem that Guy found with
:
:   "./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l
:   autoload \
:     --eval '(setq find-file-hooks nil \
:         find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
:         generated-autoload-file \
:           "c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")'  ...
:
: can not be resolved unless this is rewritten in some way. cmd.exe can't
: handle the parameters. The eval must be put in some temporary file that is
: loaded with " -load temporary-file" to solve this. Can this be done? Does
: make support doing this?

This was WRONG! I should have read the makefile sources first. It seems to
be solved there (by using $(ARGQUOTE) and $(DQUOTE). So it seems that there
is a rather simple way to build Emacs on ms windows (if MSYS sh is not in
the path).

- Lennart