On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 13:44, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 05:23:20 -0700
> > Cc: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at
> >,
> >  emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > >    ELC      ../lisp/replace.elc
> > > Can't find D:\Devel\emacs\repo\trunk\src\bootstrap-emacs.exe to refresh
> > > preloaded Lisp files
> >
> > Thanks, I installed the attached to try to fix that.
>
> It can't.  The problem is that openp expects file_directory_p to
> return ENOTDIR for a file that exists, but is not a directory.  This
> kludge was never documented, and so the DOS_NT implementation didn't
> support it.  That totally confused the logic in openp.
>

Getting better ... Emacs compiles and installs just fine now, but doesn't
run (if lpackages are loaded during startup).

"emacs -Q" starts OK. Doing [M-x load-library RET package RET] fails with
"Opening stdio stream: No such file or directory, package".