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24.3.50; MSYS out-of-tree build fails

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14503: 24.3.50; MSYS out-of-tree build fails
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:59:59 +0300

> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:27:03 +0100
> From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 14503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I think the problem is here:
> >
> >   EMACSLOADPATH=g:/emacs/trunk/lisp LC_ALL=C /g/emacs/build/src/emacs
> > -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -l autoload \
> >      --eval "(setq generate-autoload-cookie \";;;###cal-autoload\")" \
> >      --eval "(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name
> > \"g:/emacs/trunk/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el\"))" \
> >                                                                ^^^^
> >
> > How come you get here "d:/foo/bar" style of file names, and not MSYS's
> > usual "/d/foo/bar"?  Did you per chance invoke the configure script as
> > "g:/emacs/trunk/nt/msysconfig ..."?  If so, try "/g/emacs/..."
> > instead.
> >
> 
> Yes, exactly that. My mistake. Sorry for taking up your time. Thank you.

I updated the instructions advising against using Windows style file
names.

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