Re: [Fwd: How to handle "The following character string is too long... NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1'" problem while compiling XEmacs?]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Emre" == Emre Sevin <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>    Emre> I'm trying to compile XEmacs on my MS Windows 2000 Server
>    Emre> system (using .NET framework).
>
>AFAIK, nobody in the dev team is using that configuration.  Is there a
>reason why you can't or don't want to use Visual C or Cygwin's GCC,
>which are better supported?
>

Because E:\xemacs-21.5.24\nt\README says that:

1.  You will need Visual C++ V6.0, Visual Studio .NET or later to compile
    everything.

and I had Visual Studio on my machine, tools such as nmake, etc. That's 
why I followed that way.

>
>    Emre> The following character string is too long: ...
>
>Unfortunately, the string in question is generated by an intermediate
>program.  We can probably deal with it, but it may take a little time
>since we don't want to break other systems.
>
>For now, you could try editing the file dump-id.c.  Find the string,
>and in place of the space after "redisplay.obj" put ' " "' so that
>that part of the file looks like
>

I have looked at:

E:\xemacs-21.5.24\src\dump-id.c:

==================================
extern
#ifdef __cplusplus
"C"
#endif
unsigned int dump_id;
unsigned int dump_id = 1140258309U
==================================

Unfortunately I couldn't understand which string you refer to, also I 
couldn't find anything relate
do redisplay.obj in it. Am I looking at the wrong place?


>
>E:\xemacs-21.5.24\nt\obj\redisplay.obj " "E:\xemacs-21.5.24\nt\obj\regex.obj
>
>The space after "redisplay.obj" is necessary; don't omit it.  We can
>hope that it's just that the lexer buffer is of restricted size, but
>the parser is able to concatenate the strings anyway.
>
>Then just restart the make, with the same command line.  If that
>works, we can think about what to do for the future.  If it doesn't,
>I'm not sure what we would do anyway.
>
>    Emre> Then it just stopped building XEmacs. Did I do something
>    Emre> wrong?
>
>Besides using a Microsoft compiler[1], nothing.
>

As I said above, I have just followed the README file. Now I don't know 
if this error is about
a compiler limitation or a command line character length limitation.

Regards,

Emre Sevinc
Istanbul Bilgi University