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bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows
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Jan Djärv |
Subject: |
bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:06:00 +0200 |
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.
>
>
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/12
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/12
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows,
Jan Djärv <=
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/14
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13