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

[Vin Shelton]

Sean -

(I've taken the liberty of forwarding your info to the xemacs-beta
list; I hope that's OK - I thought it was acceptable since you
originally posted to a public list.)

Sean wrote:
> Follow-up on the issue of xemacs-21.5-2007-03-01 asking for a disk when
> I start it up under Vista Enterprise. I happened to be poking around
> trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out how to start xemacs with a
> different font, and found the config.values file, whose contents follow.
> Note several references to the e: drive, which (on my system) has no
> media attached. Perhaps this is the source of the complaints? (counter
> to this would be that the config.values for xemacs-21.4.19, while
> different, has some similar e: drive values)

Thanks for sending along the info, although it got word-wrapped in
transit.  I've attached an unmangled version to this message.  The
debug-paths output looks normal.

I agree that the config.values thing looks suspicious, however.  Even
though (as you note) the 21.4 build doesn't exhibit the problems, the
startup code is substantially different in 21.5 from 21.4

Michael -

Do you have any thoughts on how the values expressed in config.values
get used during XEmacs startup?  In particular, that lispdir value
looks suspicious to me. Note that some paths (generated on my system
when I built the installkit) do not exist on Sean's target system.

Here are the contents of the config.values file:

;;; Do not edit this file!
blddir
"e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\xemacs-21.5-2007-03-01"
srcdir
"e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\xemacs-21.5-2007-03-01"
CC
"cl"
CFLAGS
"-nologo -W3 -DSTRICT  -Zi -Od -MD"
CPP
"cl"
CPPFLAGS
""
LISPDIR
"\\e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\xemacs-21.5-2007-03-01\\lisp"

Thanks for any thoughts you may have, Michael.

  - Vin

-- 
The Journey by Mary Oliver
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6771&poem=30506
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: sean-paths
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 6478 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/attachments/20070416/44e8fa1f/sean-paths.obj
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: config.values
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 10729 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/attachments/20070416/44e8fa1f/config.obj