On 10 Dec 2013 18:12, "Glenn Morris" wrote: > > > What's going on here: > > Buffer is read-only: # > [...] > Buffer is read-only: # > [...] > Opening output file: no such file or directory, c:/c/emacs/trunk/lisp/loaddefs.el > [...] > loaddefs.el: No such file or directory > > ? That certainly looks suspect, well spotted. I guess "c:/c/emacs/trunk/lisp/loaddefs.el" is the value of `generated-autoload-file' which is set a few lines up: [...] --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name "/c/emacs/trunk/lisp/loaddefs.el"))' [...] I think that's probably a bug (mixing MSYS- and native-style paths), but if I had used a relative path to invoke the configure script, it would have been a benign bug. I'll reconfigure using a relative path and try again.