Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Andy Moreton]

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