bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

[Juanma Barranquero]

Package: emacs
Version: 24.3.50

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried to make a full bootstrap + "make install", on
> MS-Windows and from the current trunk (last time I tried was 13 days
> ago), and "make install" fails like this:

Why didn't you file a bug report for it?

> Installing utilities for users to run.
> umask 022; /bin/mkdir -p
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/bin"
> for file in runemacs.exe addpm.exe ; do \
>   /bin/install -c  ${file}
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/bin"/`echo
> ${file} | sed -e 's/.exe$//' -e 's,x,x,'`.exe ; \
> done
> /bin/install -c -m 644 README.W32
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/share/emacs/24.3.50"
> /bin/install: cannot stat `README.W32': No such file or directory
> Makefile:168: recipe for target `install' failed
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/dani/emacs/build/nt'
> Makefile:509: recipe for target `install-nt' failed
> make: *** [install-nt] Error 2
>
>
> Commit 116425 is related to "README.W32", so the problem might come from 
> there.

I'm pretty sure that's the problem, yes.

Which directory is current when the "/bin/install ... README.32"
command is executed?