bug#16429: 24.3.50; an issue in mingw making

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

zijianyue wrote:

> when making emacs from bzr sourcecode the first time on win32 ,the dir
> share\emacs\24.3.50\etc\charsets is not exist ,but the making process
> require it,i have to copy that dir manually.

It should work without it, and apparently does for most people.

Note that you have the following environment variables set.
There's no need to have these set (unless you want to do something
unusual), and setting them is a great way to break Emacs in exactly the
way you seem to describe above.

So try unsetting them before you build.

The build process should probably unset EMACSDATA (and DOC?), like it
does with EMACSLOADPATH. I guess EMACSPATH doesn't matter?

>   value of $EMACSDATA: E:/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.50/etc
>   value of $EMACSDOC: E:/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.50/etc
>   value of $EMACSLOADPATH: E:/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp;E:/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp;E:/emacs/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp
>   value of $EMACSPATH: E:/emacs/libexec/emacs/24.3.50/i686-pc-mingw32