Re: bzr commit 112856 (Symbol prettify in prog-mode; added to perl-mode, cfengine3-mode, and emacs-lisp-mode) breaks compilation on w32

[Claudio Bley]

At Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:40:24 +0300,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: address@hidden (Claudio Bley)
> > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:14:16 +0200
> > 
> > > > *** No rule to make target `lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.elc' needed by 
> > > > `DOC'.
> > > > Shouldn't the compile rules exit early when byte compilation fails?
> > > 
> > > Yes (modulo "make -k" obviously).
> > 
> > OK, how about
> > 
> > ---------------- 8< --------------- 8< --------------------------
> > diff --git a/lisp/makefile.w32-in b/lisp/makefile.w32-in
> > index f4bbaf3..6c1a49c 100644
> > --- a/lisp/makefile.w32-in
> > +++ b/lisp/makefile.w32-in
> 
> Thanks.  However, the makefile.w32-in files, configure.bat, and the
> related files are deprecated; you are encouraged to switch to the
> Posix build system described in nt/INSTALL.MSYS.

Does this mean you changed your mind? ;-)

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| I won't touch MSYS with a 3-mile stick.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00666.html

> For that reason, I'd prefer not to invest any effort in maintaining,
> let alone improving, the deprecated scripts

Fair enough. It's just that I'm lazy... As long as it is there (and
works for me) I probably stick with configure.bat et al. Well, maybe
I'll check out the MSYS build (which likely will have its own
problems) anyway. What's more, autoconf and friends is crawlingly slow
on w32...

-- 
Claudio