From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:50:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2rpx5l1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3lz0zej.fsf@yandex.ru> <83zjuuwx1l.fsf@gnu.org> <51B973A1.7050506@yandex.ru> <83mwquw3on.fsf@gnu.org> <51B9C7D0.5090500@yandex.ru> <83fvwmw2fx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371145874 16202 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2013 17:51:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 14603@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 13 19:51:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1UnBfy-0003eJ-H5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:51:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfy-000818-66 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfr-0007sb-V8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfq-0000Hz-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfq-0000Hv-LF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfq-0006bn-Eu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14603 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14603-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14603.137114585325367 (code B ref 14603); Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14603) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jun 2013 17:50:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41910 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfg-0006b3-Ch for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38430) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UnBfd-0006ai-Cr for 14603@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MOC00M00EUXML00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 14603@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:50:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MOC00MB0EWG9S90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:50:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:75069 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Dmitry Gutov , 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.