bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Hello.

Can't you just set some environment variable in msysconfig.sh and check for it in configure?
If it isn't set, msysconfig.sh has not been run.

	Jan D.

13 jun 2013 kl. 19:50 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,  14603@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:15:00 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>>>> No arguments, just ./configure
>>> 
>>> That will never work. 
>> 
>> Can you make it detect someone has done that and throw an error?
> 
> I don't know what to detect.  Looking at $0 is not going to fit the
> bill, because it is quite alright to set CONFIG_SITE manually before
> invoking ./configure.  You will see that the top-level Makefile.in
> does precisely that, when it finds it needs to re-run configure.
> Moreover, someone might even copy mingw-cfg.site to
> $prefix/share/config.site, and I don't think they deserve to be
> punished by throwing an error.  So testing that "$CONFIG_SITE" is
> non-empty is also sub-optimal if not outright wrong.
> 
> I wrote detailed instructions in nt/INSTALL.MSYS so that people would
> know how to avoid these.  If they don't follow, they will realize that
> soon enough...
> 
>> Naively, I would expect quite a lot of people to do that
> 
> I would expect them to read the instructions first.  Maybe it's me who
> is naive.
> 
>> maybe it's common knowledge
> 
> It isn't.
> 
>