Re: [h-e-w] Help - Errors compiling with emacs possibly due to '/'

[Stephen Leake]

Hambut Frumblefoot <address@hidden> writes:

> Whenever I try and compile from within Emacs I get the following type
> of error:
> 
> ---Start Error
> cd e:/cygwin/home/unknown/
> cd e:/cygwin/home/unknown/ && gcc -c -gnatq e:/cygwin/home/unknown/test.adb
> Too many parameters - /CYGWIN
> 
> Compilation finished at Fri Mar 08 22:43:20
> ---End Error
> 
> It looks like the '/'s should be converted to '\'s, but aren't.

Yes, that is the problem.

> I'm compiling using ada-mode (ACT Revision 1.43), "GNU Emacs 21.1.1
> (i386-msvc-windows95.1111) of 2001-10-22 on buffy" and Gnat 3.13p.

Time to upgrade to gnat 3.14p (but that won't actually help this problem).

I find it much easier to solve problems like this by installing
Cygwin, and using bash as the shell. There are many places in emacs
where "Unix behavior" is hard-coded.

I also prefer using bash because it (like Emacs) is the only shell
that runs on _every_ machine I have to use; so I only have to know one
shell, and one editor.

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-- Stephe