Re: Msys2 mingw64 build broken

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> As of
>
>    commit d3816bf8ad1fcfed2a32d23216a55850ee4325b5
>    Committer : Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>    CommitDate: Sat Jul 18 13:02:06 2015 +0300
>
> building master with Msys2 mingw64 is broken. But the problem could be
> in an earlier commit, last time I updated was 21 June.
>
> From 'make bootstrap':
>
> ...
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/c/Projects/emacs/master-build-mingw64/lisp'
> ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
> Warning: arch-independent data dir
> '%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/25.0.50/etc/': Permission denied
> Warning: Lisp directory 'c': No such file or directory
> Warning: Lisp directory
> 'C:/msys64//Projects/emacs/master-build-mingw64/../master/lisp':
> Permission denied
> Error: charsets directory not found:
> c:/Projects/emacs/master-build-mingw64/%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/25.0.50/etc/charsets
> Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
> Please check your installation!
>
>
> I'd like to learn how to fix such problems; any hints on where to look?
> Something to do with handling msys absolute path naming conventions, but
> where in the code?

I'm running git bisect

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