Attempting to build on Win98 results in an error dialog when building XPInstall directory. The thing running at the time is MAKECOPY according to the task manager. This is the only directory that has the problem (even though other directories probably use MAKECOPY?) This error dialog stops the build, so I can't have the build complete unattended. This may be a build problem, but since it only shows during the build of xpinstall, I thought I should start here.

what's the error message? is there a directory path that it shows it parsed last? there are several people that develop in the xpinstall directory.

It's a cruddy useless error dialog box that simply says "The application cannot execute on this platform" or something stupid like that. I didn't look at the build output to try to determine what was running, I can try that on the next build I run at home. Hopefully, there aren't too many calls to makecopy in the makefiles and a simple grep would narrow this down significantly. Otherwise, I'll try to add more info in the next couple of days.

does it continue if you click on the OK button? to by pass this currently is to remove nsztool from the DIRS= line. I'll need to #ifndef WIN98 or something to it.

I think this is probably the same error I am getting. The message is "This application will not run on this OS" and appears when the comiler executes line 46 of /xpinstall/wizard/windows/nsztool/makefile.win which reads $(DIST)\install\$(MODULE).exe -g $(DIST)\install\nszip.exe $(DIST)\install\nsinstall.exe The basic problem is with nsztool.exe which is giving the error message when run. It only gives the message if everything else is okay, i.e. it needs to execute the command. More specifically, see line 425 of nsztool.c Bonsai says that whole block was added in 1.3: in 1.2 it made no check at all.

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fixed. nsztool is no longer built under Win98, so the error dialog is no longer shown.

verified code fix