On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 11:08, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 9/18/19 12:45 AM, martin rudalics wrote: > > > ./temacs --batch -l loadup --temacs=pbootstrap > > emacs: Testing file: Permission denied, > > c:/emacs/trunk/non-64/share/emacs/27.0.50/etc/NEWS > > Thanks for reporting that. I installed what I hope is a patch on master; > please > give it a try. > Thanks, it gets a little further now. rm -f bootstrap-emacs.pdmp ./temacs --batch -l loadup --temacs=pbootstrap Loading loadup.el (source)... dump mode: pbootstrap Using load-path (c:/projects/emacs/lisp c:/projects/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp c:/projects/emacs/lisp/progmodes c:/projects/emacs/lisp/language c:/projects/emacs/lisp/international c:/projects/emacs/lisp/textmodes c:/projects/emacs/lisp/vc) Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run... Loading emacs-lisp/backquote... Loading subr... Loading version... Loading widget... Loading custom... Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp... Loading international/mule... Loading international/mule-conf... Loading env... Loading format... Loading bindings... Loading window... Loading files... Loading emacs-lisp/macroexp... Loading cus-face... Loading faces... Loading button... Loading c:/projects/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el (source)... Loading c:/projects/emacs/lisp/ldefs-boot.el (source)... Testing file: Permission denied, c:/var/mail make[1]: *** [Makefile:817: bootstrap-emacs.pdmp] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/projects/emacs/src'