Re: Bootstrap failure

[Chong Yidong]

Sven Joachim <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2009-11-12 11:44 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
>> | Loading startup...
>> | Invalid function: "/home/romain/src/emacs/emacs.git/lisp/startup.elc"
>> | make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 255
>> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/romain/src/emacs/emacs.git/src'
>> | make: *** [src] Error 2
>>
>> I can reliably reproduce it with the following steps:
>>
>>  1. Start from a clean checkout
>>  2. ./configure && make
>>  3. make distclean
>>  4. ./configure && make
>>
>> Step four fails with the message above. When in that situation,
>> doing 'make src' fails, but 'make -C src' works. This probably
>> points to a problem with the handling of BOOTSTRAPEMACS, but I'm not
>> sure what.

Is this on windows?  I can't reproduce the problem on GNU/Linux.