Re: building error of latest emacs on Windowxp

[zwz]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: zwz <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:26:17 +0800
>> 
>> I checked out the latest emacs today, and some error came up during
>> "make bootstrap":
>> 
>> make[1]: entering directory `/d/git/emacs/lib-src'
>> mkdir "oo-spd"
>> mkdir "oo-spd/i386"
>> echo oo-spd/i386 > stamp_BLD
>> echo config.nt has changed. Re-run configure.bat.
>> config.nt has changed. Re-run configure.bat.
>> exit -1
>
> Is the file nt/config.nt newer than src/config.h?
Yes, nt/config.nt is much newer than src/config.h.

>
> If so, there's some bug in nt/configure.bat.  Near its end, it tries
> to determine whether src/config.h needs to be updated (because
> overwriting it will trigger recompilation of all the sources).  Here
> is the portion of the script which does that:

I create a new nt/test.bat with the portion of the script.
The output suggests that the logic jumps to doCopy
after running to "if errorlevel 1 goto doCopy".

Hope this helps.
>
>   Rem See if fc.exe returns a meaningful exit status.  If it does, we
>   Rem might as well avoid unnecessary overwriting of config.h and
> epaths.h,
>   Rem since this forces recompilation of every source file.
>   if exist foo.bar del foo.bar
>   fc /b foo.bar foo.bar >nul 2>&1
>   if not errorlevel 2 goto doCopy
>   fc /b config.tmp ..\src\config.h >nul 2>&1
>   if errorlevel 1 goto doCopy
>   fc /b paths.h ..\src\epaths.h >nul 2>&1
>   if errorlevel 0 goto dontCopy
>
>   :doCopy
>   copy config.tmp ..\src\config.h
>   copy paths.h ..\src\epaths.h
>
>   :dontCopy
>   if exist config.tmp del config.tmp
>
> Could you please investigate why this logic fails in your case, and
> post the results here?
>
> TIA