"Adrian Aichner" <adrian@xemacs.org> writes:

> Hi Michael, perhaps it's something about MS VS 8.

Huh ... I looked into this some more: The line it barfs on is an
invocation of "echo".  I don't think it has anything to do with MS VS at
all: commenting out lets me proceed.

Now, I spotted a few other issues:

- nt/README mentions

  http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/optional-libs-vc8.exe

  but then goes on to claim that optional-libs.exe was compiled with
  "VC++ .NET".  I couldn't find optional-libs-vc8.exe at all.  Moreover,
  optional-libs.exe doesn't seem to work with VS 8.  Could somebody
  clarify?

- The invocation of make-docfile.exe from make-docfile.el crashes in
  make-docfile.exe. Curiously, running make-docfile.exe from a
  command-line window with the exact command-line generated by
  make-docfile.el works fine.  I was then able to build a running
  XEmacs.

- xemacs.mak has:

PATH_PREFIX=..

  which seems a singularly bad choice.  This directory is really meant
  to be absolute.  I replaced by:

!if $(INFODOCK)
PATH_PREFIX=../..
!else
PATH_PREFIX="$(INSTALL_DIR)"
!endif

PATH_DEFINES=-DPATH_PREFIX=\"$(PATH_PREFIX:\=\\)\"

  which seems to work fine.  Does anybody know any specific reason for
  the strange setting?