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[Richard M. Stallman]

I don't know when Eli will have time to fix this, but I think this is
an important problem and we should fix it soon.  Can someone fix it now,
and ack to me?

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:51:07 +0200
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> From: "RGB" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:56:07 -0500
> 
> call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT"
> call configure
> nmake bootstrap
> 
> I run emacs like this:
> 
> set path=%path%;C:\Program Files\aspell\bin
> set home=C:\emacs\custom
> c:\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe %1 %2 %3
> 
> If I do a bootstrap build but don't do an install I will still get a
> c:\emacs\bin\emacs.exe.  I'm thinking this is what you are calling
> bootstrap-emacs.  Whatever it's called it works fine and is mostly
> indistinguishable from the version that is later built using loaddefs.el.
> That version remains in emacs/src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe until I run
> install.

Okay, thanks for the explanations.  I see the reason now:
bootstrap-emacs is copied to bin/emacs.exe and remains there even
after the final binary is produced.  I will fix that when I have time.


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