Re: Trunk broken on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:00:21 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> The build fails with these error messages:
> 
>   Warning: arch-independent data dir `%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/25.0.50/etc/': 
> Permission denied
>   Warning: Lisp directory `./lisp': No such file or directory
>   Error: charsets directory not found:
>   d:/gnu/bzr/emacs/trunk/src/%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/25.0.50/etc/charsets
>   Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
>   Please check your installation!
>   Makefile:833: recipe for target `bootstrap-emacs.exe' failed
>   make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs.exe] Error 1
> 
> Looks like some fallout from commits in r118316..118318.

The problem is with editing nt/epaths.nt into src/epaths.in, and
specifically with editing of @address@hidden  Instead of substituting the
absolute file name of the top-level directory, Makefile now
substitutes just ".", so we end up with

  #define PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH "./lisp"

instead of the correct

  #define PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH "d:/foo/bar/baz/lisp"

This makes this portion of init_callproc fail:

  if (data_dir == 0)
    {
      Lisp_Object tem, tem1, srcdir;
      Lisp_Object lispdir = Fcar (decode_env_path (0, PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH, 0));

      srcdir = Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("../src/"), lispdir);

      tem = Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("NEWS"), Vdata_directory);
      tem1 = Ffile_exists_p (tem);
      if (!NILP (Fequal (srcdir, Vinvocation_directory)) || NILP (tem1))
        {
          Lisp_Object newdir;
          newdir = Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("../etc/"), lispdir);
          tem = Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("NEWS"), newdir);
          tem1 = Ffile_exists_p (tem);
          if (!NILP (tem1))
            Vdata_directory = newdir;
        }
    }

because when lispdir is just "./lisp", expand-file-name yields
d:/foo/bar/baz/src/src, since it expands "." into the directory where
temacs runs.

IOW, the new editing of epaths.h will probably fail for anyone who
builds inside the source tree.