Re: make bootstrap fails.

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

       I do not know whether this is the problem in the case of the OP.  It
       is definitely a fact though that if CDPATH is set and does not start
       with a colon, problems can develop.

   If it is not easy to fix this problem, please don't worry about it too
   much.  It would be worth a small effort, but not a large one.

I set CDPATH in my shell to ~/, a highly inappropriate value for
emacs/Makefile.in and did:

make distclean
./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
make bootstrap
sudo make install

without any problems after applying the trivial patch below.

A caveat is in order though.  I am not an expert on Makefile.in.
If Makefile.in for some strange reason needs to access the user's
CDPATH, then I am suggesting something dangerous, even though it works
perfectly for me.  (I usually do not have CDPATH set.)  This seems
excessively unlikely to me.

===File ~/Makefile.in-diff==================================
*** Makefile.in.~1.284.~	Mon Feb  2 16:31:15 2004
--- Makefile.in	Tue Feb  3 10:35:22 2004
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*** 53,58 ****
--- 53,60 ----
  
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  
+ CDPATH=
+ 
  # If Make doesn't predefine MAKE, set it here.
  @SET_MAKE@
  
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