Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>]

>> I've just tried to bootstrap (autogen + msysconfig + make bootstrap)
>> with your patch applied, but it fails the same way.
>
> I think there's a mistake in the patch:
>
>   !     @(w32srcdir=`cd "$srcdir"; pwd -W | sed -e 's,^\([[A-Za-z]]\):,/\1,' | ${msys_to_w32}` ;        \
>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This should be "[A-Za-z]", i.e. only single pair of brackets.  (The
> second one was necessary in an Autoconf file, to protect from
> expansion by m4.)

I've tried again with that correction, but I see the same failure.

I may provide any necessary info to investigate this further (though I
think that this problem should be trivial to reproduce by anyone who
builds Emacs on MS-Windows).

>> BTW, as Óscar already said [1], there is a second problem here: Just
>> after running autogen.sh (in the source tree) and msysconfig (in the
>> -empty- build tree), "make bootstrap" re-runs autogen.sh (see line 137
>> of the attached file) and the makefiles are re-generated.  This should
>> be unnecessary in this case, no?
>
> This is on purpose, as this snippet from the top-level Makefile shows:

OK, thanks for clarifying this.


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Dani Moncayo