From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:24:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: <134n7uab5v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r4au7li4.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwli7gwq.fsf@gnu.org> <837gcl7917.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383769593 22248 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2013 20:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:26:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 06 21:26:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9g7-0002dv-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:26:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9g6-0006uf-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:26:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9fv-0006lk-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9fn-0001Y5-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9fn-0001Xv-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ve9et-0000UE-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:24:59 +0100 Original-Received: from uk.solarflare.com ([193.34.186.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:24:59 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by uk.solarflare.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:24:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: uk.solarflare.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XdMvhHDjqokvqzqdumo1GYkr3wE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165009 Archived-At: On Wed 06 Nov 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Andy Moreton >> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:59:26 +0000 >> >> When "make bootstrap" reruns configure, it produces different output >> to configure run on its own, and it looks like it is ignoring the >> site config that msysconfig provides. > > Not here. If it does that on your system, that's some bug that needs > to be investigated. Thanks for the hint Eli - you are right as usual. After further investigation this turned out to be a problem in my wrapper script which was passing configure args in the environment rather than on the configure command line. This is explained nicely in "Defining Variables" in autoconf info. AndyM