From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:38:08 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Sun29Sep2002193808+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <20020920101908.3689.LEKTU@terra.es> <6480-Sat21Sep2002002308+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20020929022529.CF64.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033317644 28434 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 16:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vh7b-0007OU-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17vhqs-0002u5-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:27:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vh7k-0001ex-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vh5G-0001VO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:38:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vh59-0001VC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:38:18 -0400 Original-Received: from diana.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vh59-0001V8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Zaretsky ([80.230.2.40]) by diana.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.58-GA) with ESMTP id ALT38888; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:38:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: lektu@terra.es X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <20020929022529.CF64.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:43:03 -0300) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8228 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8228 > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:43:03 -0300 > From: Juanma Barranquero > > I'm trying to test them, but I'm unable to bootstrap EMACS_21_1_RC on > W95 (with or without my changes) because of a problem with > `grep-compute-defaults' during the making of the custom-deps target: > > > Saving file c:/BIN/emacs/EMACS_21_1_RC/lisp/cus-load.el... > > Symbol's function definition is void: grep-compute-defaults Sorry, cannot help you here: I never saw anything like that. (But I didn't try to bootstrap on Windows 9X either.) > Another problem: several targets (bootstrap-clean, compile-files, etc.) do > nested fors, and COMMAND.COM chokes on them. If you cannot work around this, perhaps we should require Bash on Windows 9X? > And finally a question: why is bootstrapping contingent on having a diff > program (and maybe also grep, I'm not sure)? What parts of the bootstrap need those programs?