Re: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.*

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Lilja <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:15:11 +0100
> 
> > What I meant is this: modify the line in admin/unidate/makefile that
> > says
> > 
> >     "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch -f 
> > batch-byte-compile unidata-gen.el
> > 
> > to say this instead:
> > 
> >     "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch --eval 
> > "(message \"%s\" load-path)"
> > 
> > and then see what it displays when you run "make bootstrap".
> > 
> > Note that, since admin/unidate/makefile is generated by "make
> > bootstrap", you will either need to edit admin/unidate/makefile.w32-in
> > and then run nt/configure.bat to create admin/unidate/makefile, or
> > edit admin/unidate/makefile while "make bootstrap" runs, but before it
> > gets to where it executes the above line.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, here's what happened. My admin/unidata/makefile was generated after 
> the configure step, but I couldn't find the line I was supposed to 
> change so I read your message a little bit more carefully. Ah, and you 
> said that it's generated during bootstrap so I thought that it would be 
> modified during bootstrap

No, I was wrong, of course: admin/unidata/makefile is generated during
the configure step, not during "make bootstrap".  Sorry about that.

> .el.elc:
>       $(RUNEMACS) -f batch-byte-compile $<

The line to change is the one above, it's a command to compile a .el
file that is run when Make needs unidata-gen.elc (required by the
charprop-* rules).