Bootstrap failure with new configure.bat (was Re: Proposed change to nt/INSTALL)

[Christoph Scholtes]

Hi Ben,

On 5/4/2011 6:54 PM, Ben Key wrote:

> I have now tested my configure.bat changes on both Windows 2000 and
> Windows XP in addition to Windows 7.  Once I have some input on the
> change to nt/INSTALL I will commit the change.

Did you try to compile with a flag that includes spaces?

I changed

--cflags -IC:/Progra~2/GnuWin32/include

to

--cflags -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/include"

and get the following error:

gcc -I. -c -gdwarf-2 -g3 -mno-cygwin -mtune=pentium4 -O2 
-DENABLE_CHECKING -DXASSERTS -fno-crossjumping  -IC:/Program -o 
oo-spd/i386/emacs.o emacs.c
emacs.c:22:20: fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory 
compilation terminated.
mingw32-make[2]: *** [oo-spd/i386/emacs.o] Error 1
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory 
`D:/devel/emacs/emacs-bzr/trunk_readonly/src'
mingw32-make[1]: *** [bootstrap-temacs] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory 
`D:/devel/emacs/emacs-bzr/trunk_readonly/src'
mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2

Obviously, the CFLAG `-IC:/Program' is the culprit here. The gcc command 
is generated correctly if the directory name does not contain any spaces.

Earlier in the bootstrap during compilation of temacs the command is 
correctly generated, for example:

gcc -I. -c -gdwarf-2 -g3 -mno-cygwin -mtune=pentium4 -O2 
-DENABLE_CHECKING -DXASSERTS -fno-crossjumping  -I"C:/Program Files 
(x86)/GnuWin32/include" -ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/include 
-ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/gnutls-2.8.6/include 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H=1 -I. -I../nt/inc -I../src -o oo-spd/i386/filemode.o 
filemode.c

Eli,
do you have any idea why the part after the first space gets stripped of 
in some cases and in some cases it doesn't?

Christoph