Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:32:02 +0000
> 
> The scenario that goes wrong is:
> 1) Begin with a clean bzr checkout
> 2) Run 'autogen.sh" and 'nt/msysconfig.sh' and 'make' as usual
> 3) Time passes, and configure.ac is updated after a bzr pull
> 4) Run 'make bootstrap', and observe that the CONFIG_SITE file
>    is not used when configure is run from the make, leading to
>    incorrect configure results and a failed bootstrap.

Don't do 4).  Instead, just do "make", and let it decide whether it
needs to regenerate configure.

The problem here is that "make bootstrap", when invoked outside of the
source tree, does not see the file GNUmakefile, which arranges for CFG
to have the proper value.