Re: compiling bbdb3 with mingw

> From: Sean Sieger <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:00:23 -0400
> 
> In the meanwhile, I tried to substitute this bit from lisp/Makefile,
> 
>         $(emacs) -l autoload \
>                 --eval '(setq autoload-builtin-package-versions t)' \
>                 --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name "$(lisp)/loaddefs.el"))' \
>                 -f batch-update-autoloads $$wins
> 
> for this, in bbdb/lisp/makefile-temp,
> 
>         $(emacs) -l autoload \
>              	--eval '(setq generated-autoload-file "'`pwd`/$@'")' \
>                 --eval '(setq make-backup-files nil)' \
> 	-f batch-update-autoloads `pwd`
> 
> like this,
> 
> 	$(emacs) -l autoload \
> 		--eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name "'`pwd`/$@'")' \
> 		--eval '(setq make-backup-files nil)' \
> 		-f batch-update-autoloads `pwd`
> 
> It wasn't fatal but it didn't write bbdb-loaddefs.el like I was hopin'
> and prayin' it would.

I have no idea what bbdb tries to do here and why.  The call to
unmsys--file-name was supposed to solve only one problem: to avoid
producing invalid file names such as c:/c/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el.
Did it, or didn't it solve this?  If it did, then the rest is some
other problem.