FYI I have made a trial with a close to latest version of EMACS and that does 
not change what I get.

  Vincent.

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> From: vincent....@hotmail.fr
> To: ba...@cs.nuim.ie
> Subject: RE: Patch to makefile-temp
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:07:54 +0200
> CC: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Just to say that replacing `pwd` by $(CURDIR) and using mingw32-make does not 
> make it either, I still have that:
>
> LC_ALL=C c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs_build20130408/bin/emacs.exe --batch 
> --directory=./  -l autoload \
>     --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file 
> "c:/Programme/GNU/installation/bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el")' \
>     --eval '(setq make-backup-files nil)' \
>     -f batch-update-autoloads c:/Programme/GNU/installation/bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp
> Generating autoloads for ../../../../bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el...
> Generating autoloads for 
> ../../../../bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el...done
> Saving file 
> c:/Programme/GNU/installation/emacs-install/emacs/trunk/lisp/c;c:msys.0ProgrammeGNUinstallatiobdb-gibdblisbdb-loaddefs.el...
>
> that is to say
>
> c:/Programme/GNU/installation/bbdb-git/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-loaddefs.el
>
> is expanded for some reason by my EMACS version into
>
> c:/Programme/GNU/installation/emacs-install/emacs/trunk/lisp/c;c:msys.0ProgrammeGNUinstallatiobdb-gibdblisbdb-loaddefs.el
>
> I do not know why this happens and whether that would still happen with the 
> latest version of EMACS. Maybe this is due to my using a non releast EMACS 
> --- one that was built from repo one year or so ago.
>
> VBR,
>    Vincent.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: vincent....@hotmail.fr
>> To: ba...@cs.nuim.ie
>> CC: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: RE: Patch to makefile-temp
>> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:24:38 +0200
>>
>> That has not to do with autoload tools, but with not using them. The 
>> makefile-temp is not automatically generated by autoload tools, it is a 
>> plain makefile that does not work in all cases --- at least it does not work 
>> on MSWindows XP as far as I can say.
>>
>> I was proposing a fix which I had done for myself, while trying to keep 
>> backward compatibility, but it seems that this fix is too complex, I do not 
>> argue. The best way would anyway have been to use autoload --- or some other 
>> build system that is platform independent (EDE ?). Or maybe there can be 
>> alternative fixes simpler than what I had put forward (using mingw32-make 
>> instead of msys make and $(CURDIR) instead of `pwd` would probably make it, 
>> but I did not try...)
>>
>> Vincent.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:29:38 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: Patch to makefile-temp
>>> From: ba...@cs.nuim.ie
>>> To: vincent....@hotmail.fr
>>> CC: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> If the autotools-based stuff doesn't work on MSWindows, please report
>>> the details.
>>> That would be a bug, and we should be able to fix it, because
>>> autotools-generated
>>> scripts are intended to work in that environment (given an installed
>>> bourne-compatible
>>> shell, and make), and they are doing nothing fancy here.
>>>
>>> If it is an issue of various support programs being necessary (texinfo 
>>> stuff,
>>> for example), we could try to add options like ./configure 
>>> --disable-texinfo or
>>> such, and default them to "off" if the support programs are unavailable.
>>>
>>> If it is a problem with filenames, that could probably be fixed with 
>>> appropriate
>>> machinations. Is it having trouble finding the Emacs executable? That would
>>> be a bug in some m4 macros. Anyway, we should arrange things so autotools
>>> works on MSWindows.
>>>
>>> --Barak.
>>
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