Re: CVS emacs bootstrap problem: cannot open encoded-kb

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:38:30 -0700
> From: "Steven Wu" <wus@qwest.net>
> Cc: offby1@blarg.net
> 
> I knew the fix to the problem, and I applied the fix. I was
> wondering that the problem has been there since 2004, and someone
> mentioned the fix for it, but it is not in the CVS src.

It's not in the CVS because no one succeeded to explain or understand
why this problem happens in the Cygwin build, but not in any other
build, including the MS-Windows build with MinGW development tools.  I
object in principle to installing changes to problems we do not
understand, because we might be fixing the wrong code.

If you can afford the time and effort to debug this and report the
results, please do.  I can assure you that, once the problem is
understood sufficiently well, the solution will be installed in no
time.

TIA

> - lisp = $(CURDIR)
> +lisp = $(shell cygpath -m $(CURDIR))

You see, this shouldn't be needed, since subdirectories of lisp/
should be automatically on load-path--it's part of the Emacs startup
code to make this happen.  So some other factor is at work here.