Re: Emacs 23.1.97 pretest

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 19:27, David Robinow <address@hidden> wrote:

> The curly brackets in lib-src/makefile.w32-in are still there!

Yes. The patch was committed to the trunk and has not been backported
to the emacs-23 branch.

> The
> pretest (and the last five pretests) will not compile using the
> Microsoft compiler. This bug has been reported numerous times.
> PLEASE, either fix this or drop support for Visual Studio 2003.

I agree we should fix it, but this is a bit too dramatic. Anyone
trying to build with Visual Studio will likely notice the problem and
just hand-fix the makefile...

    Juanma