bug#13929: 24.3.50; win32 bootstrap failure

bug#13929: 24.3.50; win32 bootstrap failure

[rcopley]

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"make bootstrap" fails recently for me on Windows 8 in the trunk (my
latest good build is 111979), with this output:


[...]
Dumping from oo-spd/i386/temacs.bin
          to oo-spd/i386/temacs.exe
make[3]: Leaving directory `G:/emacs/trunk/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `G:/emacs/trunk/src'
"./oo-spd/i386/temacs.exe" -batch -l loadup bootstrap
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (../lisp g:/emacs/trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp g:/emacs/trunk/lisp/lang
uage g:/emacs/trunk/lisp/international g:/emacs/trunk/lisp/textmodes)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
Symbol's function definition is void: \`
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error -1
make[1]: Leaving directory `G:/emacs/trunk/src'
make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2





In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
 of 2013-03-10 on MACHINE
Bzr revision: 111992 eliz@gnu.org-20130310172804-jsjgi6u5t6m57us2
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.2.9200
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags -I c:/gnuwin32/include --ldflags
 -L c:/gnuwin32/lib'


Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENG
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t


Major mode: Lisp Interaction


Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u f <backspace> g 
<return>


Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.


Load-path shadows:
None found.


Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win
w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list
newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic
indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev minibuffer button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32
multi-tty emacs)

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bug#13929: 24.3.50; w32 bootstrap failure

[Richard Stallman]

I expect someone will fix this, and thanks for reporting it,
but would you please not refer to Windows as a "win"?

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bug#13929: 24.3.50; w32 bootstrap failure

[Richard Copley]

On 12 March 2013 16:59, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> I expect someone will fix this, and thanks for reporting it,
> but would you please not refer to Windows as a "win"?

I was alluding to the Old English noun, meaning "labour, strife,
conflict", of course, but I'll try to remember.