Re: Bootstrap failure with new configure.bat (was Re: Proposed change to nt/INSTALL)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ben Key <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 10:23:44 -0300
> 
> > Look again.  The above compilation command line, with
> > "-DPURESIZE=5000000", is the first compilation.  Then all Lisp files
> > are compiled.  And finally all the C files are recompiled without the
> > "-DPURESIZE=5000000" option.  This is how bootstrap works on Windows.
> 
> On an unrelated note: why do you need this -DPURESIZE=5000000 for the
> w32 build?

Simply because no one has invested the effort to see whether the
bootstrap will work without it, and tweaked the w32 Makefiles
accordingly.  Those Makefiles are somewhat tricky because they need to
support GNU Make and MS Nmake and also 2 kinds of shell with GNU Make.
The current setup works with all that complexity.

Volunteers are welcome, as usual.