They caused mingw32-make.exe bootstrap to fail with the following error if cmd.exe
was being used as the shell:
"process_begin: CreateProcess((null), echo., ...) failed."
I replaced the "@echo." lines in nt\makefile.w32-in with "@echo ." This writes a .
to the screen but that is far more desirable than make bootstrap failing.
I replaced the "echo. ..." line in lisp\makefile.w32-in with "echo ;;; ...". This
writes an extra comment line to loaddefs.el. Again this is far more desirable than
make bootstrap failing.
NOTE: I am using cmd.exe as my shell when building Emacs with MinGW instead of
the sh.exe that comes with msys because when I use sh.exe as my shell, loaddefs.el
does not get properly generated and I get various auto load errors.
echo (autoload 'define-derived-mode "derived")>> $@
echo (autoload 'encoded-kbd-mode "encoded-kb")>> $@
echo (defvar cvs-global-menu nil)>> $@
- echo.\f>> $@
+ echo ;;; >> $@
echo ;;; Local Variables:>> $@
echo ;;; version-control: never>> $@
echo ;;; no-byte-compile: t>> $@
doit:\r
\r
maybe-bootstrap-CMD: doit\r
- @echo.\r
+ @echo .\r
@if not EXIST ..\lisp\abbrev.elc echo Essential Lisp files seem to be missing. You should either\r
@if not EXIST ..\lisp\abbrev.elc echo do 'make bootstrap' or create 'lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow\r
- @echo.\r
+ @echo .\r
@if not EXIST ..\lisp\abbrev.elc exit -1\r
\r
maybe-bootstrap-SH: doit\r