[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > 
 >  > We don't know what filenames it's looking for, right?  I really wish
 >  > Windows would give helpful error messages.  This is like trying to
 >  > debug a two-frame C backtrace....
 > 
 > FWIW I did a strings on a basic Unix build, and I got (1) a bunch of
 > references to the source C files (possibly from Aidan's patch
 > referenced previously) 

No, they’re there for GDB’s sake, as I understand it. My patch stores the C
file names in etc/DOC, as does GNU. 

 > and (2) some self-referential error-checking code in tests.c and text.h. 
 > This was configured "configure --with-prefix=no" and I did strings on
 > temacs, not the dumped xemacs. Doing strings on the dumped file also
 > comes up with (3) a bunch of references to .elcs, as well, presumably in
 > the load-list.

(mapcar 'car load-history) includes the full paths to the dumped lisp on the
build machine. 

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