[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101816: nt/INSTALL: Add note about problematic characters passed to configure.

[Juanma Barranquero]

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revno: 101816
committer: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Wed 2010-10-06 12:55:03 +0200
message:
  nt/INSTALL: Add note about problematic characters passed to configure.
modified:
  nt/ChangeLog
  nt/INSTALL

=== modified file 'nt/ChangeLog'
--- a/nt/ChangeLog      2010-10-01 11:52:23 +0000
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog      2010-10-06 10:55:03 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-10-06  Juanma Barranquero  <address@hidden>
+
+       * INSTALL: Add note about problematic characters passed to configure.
+
 2010-10-01  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>
 
        * makefile.w32-in (frc, TAGS, TAGS-gmake, TAGS-nmake): New targets.

=== modified file 'nt/INSTALL'
--- a/nt/INSTALL        2010-07-24 13:35:31 +0000
+++ b/nt/INSTALL        2010-10-06 10:55:03 +0000
@@ -221,6 +221,14 @@
   absolutely sure the produced binaries will never need to be run under
   a debugger.
 
+  Because of limitations of the stock Windows command shell, certain
+  characters (quotes, backslashes and equal signs) can be problematic
+  and should not be used in arguments to configure.  That means that
+  forward slashes must be used in paths passed to the compiler and
+  linker via the --cflags and --ldflags options, and that it is
+  currently not possible to pass a macro like -DFOO=BAR (though -DFOO
+  is perfectly valid).
+
   N.B.  It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure
   is running, when gcc support is being tested.  These cannot be
   suppressed because of limitations in the Windows 9X command.com shell.