Re: DOC & DOC-* wrongly ignored in emacs cvs /etc

[CHENG Gao]

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| `make bootstrap' should work even if DOC and DOC-* are missing.
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I dont think so at least for bootstrapping under Windows.

Please allow me to post a relative long error messages, from which you
can see when it fails (I think it's very much near end of bootstrapping
process.)

I have built Emacs trunk successfully with DOC* files copied from old
emacs installation after a failed build. Error messages posted are from
emacs-unicode-2 bootstrapping.

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| In end of data:
| url-privacy.el:83:1:Warning: the function `url-device-type' is not known to be
|     defined.
| Wrote d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp/url/url-privacy.elc
| Compiling url/url-proxy.el
| Wrote d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp/url/url-proxy.elc
| Compiling url/url-util.el
| Wrote d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp/url/url-util.elc
| Compiling url/url-vars.el
| Wrote d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp/url/url-vars.elc
| Compiling url/url.el
| Wrote d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp/url/url.elc
| Compiling url/vc-dav.el
| 
| In toplevel form:
| url/vc-dav.el:24:1:Error: Cannot open doc string file 
"d:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode
| /etc/DOC"
| make[1]: *** [compile-SH] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory `D:/home/cvs/emacs-unicode/lisp'
| make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2
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I think the problem lies in lib-src/makefile.w32-in, in which from lines
250 to 259:

DOC           = DOC
$(DOC):         make-docfile
                - $(DEL) $(DOC)
                "$(THISDIR)/$(BLD)/make-docfile" -o $(DOC) -d ../src $(obj)
                "$(THISDIR)/$(BLD)/make-docfile" -a $(DOC) -d ../src $(lisp1)
                "$(THISDIR)/$(BLD)/make-docfile" -a $(DOC) -d ../src $(lisp2)
                $(CP) $(DOC) ../etc/DOC-X
                - mkdir "../src/$(OBJDIR)"
                - mkdir "../src/$(OBJDIR)/etc"
                $(CP) $(DOC) ../src/$(OBJDIR)/etc/DOC-X

while they dont exist in Makefile.in.

I trust this is why bootstrapping only fails with Windows building.
I have tried to comment these lines, but this did not fix the problem.

Could any guru look into this?


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