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Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr, 9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9960: Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:11:49 +0200

> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>
> Cc: fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr,  9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:38:41 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why?? even cmd.exe is in peace with forward slashes, as long as they
> > are in quotes.  What is the error message? are you sure the problem is
> > with forward slashes, and not with something else?  If the problem is
> > with forward slashes, how come invocations of make-docfile and other
> > commands in lib-src/makefile.w32-in, which also use forward slashes,
> > did work?
> 
> No idea. I will dig into this some more.

Thanks.  Could it be that the quotes are the problem?

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