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Re: Build failure on Windows


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Build failure on Windows
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:59:08 +0100

So with these messages ...

>> Loading abbrev.el (source)...
>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "(require cl-lib) while preparing to 
dump"
>> )
>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "(require cl-lib) while preparing to 
dump"
>> )
>> (require cl-lib) while preparing to dump
>> ln -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe
>> ln: accessing `emacs.exe': No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** [emacs.exe] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/emacs-git/trunk/dbg/src'
>> make: *** [src] Error 2
>>
>> which means that with every pull I apparently have to bootstrap.  I
>> can't afford that.
>
> No need to bootstrap (I never do, as it deletes the old binaries I
> keep for testing and bisection).  What you need is manually
> byte-compile a few of the Lisp files updated: cl-lib.el, pp.el,
> re-builder.el, and abbrev.el.

... I am supposed to recompile abbrev.el and cl-lib.el and continue the
build.  Correct?  Then this should be added to the INSTALL instructions
either in the source directory or in the nt directory if this is Windows
specific.  Pretty please.

Thanks in advance, martin



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