Re: Boostrap error

[Jan D.]

> : things to do and Windows is not my preferred platform.  Besides, the
> solution
> : you are proposing only handles a special case, not the general case.
>
> It was not my proposal, it was Stefan Monniers, but I liked it so I
> corrected some errors in the code he himself did not have time to 
> test. But
> what do you mean with that it is a special case?

In cygwin you can change the prefix, it can be changed to any string.  
The patch only handles the default /cygdrive.  I use /cyg myself.
Also, only single letter mounts that corresponds to DOS drives are 
handeled (i.e. /d/src <=> d:/src).  But cygwin lets you mount paths 
anywhere and multiple times.  I mount d:/src under /usr/src, so these 
three paths go to the same directory:
  /cyg/d/src
  /d/src
  /usr/src

The possibilites are endless, so a simple regexp can not capture this 
in the general case.

> :  If it
> : where up to me, I'd let configure check if cygpath is usable, and if 
> not,
> : require that the user supply the dos path to configure
> : (--dospath=c:/whatever/emacs) and use that for buildlisppath and 
> lisp in
> the
> : makefiles for leim and lisp respectively.  But again, this is not my
> platform
> : of choice, so the ones working on this must do what they think is 
> best.
>
> Can you please explain what you mean more exactly? Are you using
> configure.bat in the nt subdir? Or configure in the main dir? What is
> dospath? Is it a proposal or does it exist?

Yes, I use configure.bat.  Dos path is the path DOS/Windows programs 
use, like c:/windows.

This what I do:

cd /d/src/emacs-cygwin/nt
./configure.bat
make bootstrap lisp=d:/src/emacs-cygwin/lisp 
buildlisppath=d:/src/emacs-cygwin/lisp

The last part is something that could be simplified, either by trying 
to figure out the DOS path in configure.bat, or if that is not 
possible, require that the user gives it to configure, something like:

./configure.bat --dospath=d:/src/emacs-cygwin

I then would not have to type the path twice on the command line, 
configure.bat would add that last /lisp also and substitute this into 
leim/makefile and lisp/makefile.  This works for any cygwin mount as 
long as the DOS path is correct.

        Jan D.