Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

[Yongwei Wu]

On 03/10/2007, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:53:43 +0800
> > From: "Yongwei Wu" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > > +if exist config.h.W32 GoTo NotCVS
> > > +sed -n "s/^AC_INIT(\[GNU make\],\[\([^]]\+\)\].*/s,%%VERSION%%,\1,g/p" 
> > > configure.in > config.h.W32.sed
> > > +echo s,%%PACKAGE%%,make,g >> config.h.W32.sed
> > > +sed -f config.h.W32.sed config.h.W32.template > config.h.W32
> > > +:NotCVS
> > >  if not exist config.h copy config.h.W32 config.h
> > >  cd w32\subproc
> > >  echo "Creating the subproc library"
> >
> > Excellent!  Except that the double "%" does not work for me.  Cutting
> > them by half works :-).
>
> Did you try running the batch file, or did you run the commands by
> hand from the command line?  In the latter case, you will indeed need
> only one % instead of two; batch files need to double the %.

Oh my, you are right!

The holiday gives me some leisure, but apparently not a very critical
mind. :-(

> > I was frustrated by the fact that Batch files do not support things
> > like "echo -n" and "`cmd`", so resorting to a Shell script was really
> > a desperate hack.
>
> Well, actually `cmd` _is_ supported, but only in newer versions of
> Windows (W2K and later), and I didn't want to limit users to those
> versions.

Bother to elaborate more?  I have no knowledge about this.  I made a
very simple test on my XP box, and do not have a clue.

Best regards,

Yongwei

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