Subject: Re: bug#8373: why not give user an extra variable when compile emacs under windows?

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:05:06 +0200

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 16:45, Xu Jingtao <[email-masked]> wrote:

> But under windows os,the "=" is treated as white space when passed to batch arguments.
> So I have to modify this gcc definition in emacs's source tree which is not my pleasure.
> Why not give user an extra variable when compile emacs under windows?

I think the proper fix would be finding a way to pass arguments
containing "=" to configure.bat. That might prove difficult, though,
at least with command.com.

    Juanma