Re: Bootstrap failure with new configure.bat (was Re: Proposed change to nt/INSTALL)

[Christoph Scholtes]

OK, I think I have figured it out.

configure.bat generates:

USER_CFLAGS=-I"D:/Test Dir/GnuWin32/include" 
-ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/src 
-ID:/devel/emacs/gnutls-2.8.6/include

src/makefile l.570:
bootstrap-temacs:
	$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $(XMFLAGS) temacs CFLAGS=$(ARGQUOTE)$(CFLAGS) 
-DPURESIZE=5000000$(ARGQUOTE)

expands to

mingw32-make -w  temacs CFLAGS="-I. -c -gdwarf-2 -g3 -mno-cygwin 
-mtune=pentium4 -O2   -DENABLE_CHECKING -DXASSERTS -fno-crossjumping 
-I"D:/Test Dir/GnuWin32/include" -ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/include 
-ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/gnutls-2.8.6/include 
-Demacs=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../lib -I../nt/inc -DHAVE_NTGUI=1 
-DUSE_CRT_DLL=1 -DPURESIZE=5000000"

Looks like the $(ARGQUOTE) and the quotes in CFLAGS (from USER_CFLAGS) 
collide and lead to the "corruption" of CFLAGS for any further compiler 
calls.

If I manually escape the quotes in USER_CFLAGS in src/makefile as follows:

USER_CFLAGS=-I\"D:/Test Dir/GnuWin32/include\" 
-ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/src 
-ID:/devel/emacs/gnutls-2.8.6/include

everything compiles fine.

I am puzzled though, why this is not a problem on Ben's system.

Can we have configure.bat escape the quotes in the flag arguments?

Christoph