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Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows |
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Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:34:20 +0000 |
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On Fri 08 Nov 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:32:02 +0000
>>
>> The scenario that goes wrong is:
>> 1) Begin with a clean bzr checkout
>> 2) Run 'autogen.sh" and 'nt/msysconfig.sh' and 'make' as usual
>> 3) Time passes, and configure.ac is updated after a bzr pull
>> 4) Run 'make bootstrap', and observe that the CONFIG_SITE file
>> is not used when configure is run from the make, leading to
>> incorrect configure results and a failed bootstrap.
>
> Don't do 4). Instead, just do "make", and let it decide whether it
> needs to regenerate configure.
>
> The problem here is that "make bootstrap", when invoked outside of the
> source tree, does not see the file GNUmakefile, which arranges for CFG
> to have the proper value.
Thanks Eli, I hadn't noticed that.
This does rely on the value of MSYSTEM in the environment, which is only
set if the msys bash shell was invoked via "mingw/msys/1.0/msys.bat"
i.e. it is not set by msys bash itself. I'll set MSYSTEM in my wrapper
script and see if it helps.
AndyM
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, (continued)
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/11/06
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/11/11
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/11/05
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/11/05
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/11/05
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/06
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/06
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/06
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/08
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/08
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows,
Andy Moreton <=
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/08
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/10
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Jarek Czekalski, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/09
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/11/05
- Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows, Dani Moncayo, 2013/11/05