Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Dani Moncayo]

> So this is the final patch that has worked for me:

I want to suggest the following simplification/improvement.  It is
tested on a real bootstrap.

Explanation:
* The ouput of "pwd -W" is in windows-native format (c:/foo/bar), and
we are converting it to MSYS-format (/c/foo/bar) and then converting
it back to windows-native format.  That double conversion is obviously
pointless.
* "${srcdir}" should expand to an existing directory.  If somehow it
expands to anything else, it is better to error out, because something
is going wrong.  So I've chained the commands with "&&" instead of
";".


diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 984dcea..3de8209 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ msys_sed_sh_escape=sed -e 's/[];$$*.^[]/\\\\&/g'
 # the data directory.  "pwd -W" produces Windows-style 'd:/foo/bar'
 # absolute directory names, so we use it here to countermand that lossage.
 epaths-force-w32: FRC
- @(w32srcdir=`cd "${srcdir}"; pwd -W | sed -e 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/\1,'
| ${msys_to_w32}` ; \
+ @(w32srcdir=`cd "${srcdir}" && pwd -W` ; \
   prefixpattern=`echo '${prefix}' | ${msys_to_w32} | ${msys_sed_sh_escape}` ; \
   locallisppath=`echo '${locallisppath}' | ${msys_lisppath_to_w32} |
${msys_prefix_subst}` ; \
   sed < ${srcdir}/nt/epaths.nt > epaths.h.$$$$ \



-- 
Dani Moncayo