Re: Build failure on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 18:45:56 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  > Hmm... that's not my impression, I didn't see any significant changes
>  > in build problems lately.  Maybe that's again because I build inside
>  > the source tree.
> 
> I need an optimized build for coding and non-optimized one for
> debugging.  How else could I reconcile these?

I didn't mean to suggest you should build from inside the tree, just
to explain why I might miss problems that you are bumping into.

>  > Do you have any idea when things started deteriorating, per chance?
> 
> I usually bootstrap once every year after the traditional copyright
> changes.  Till then there were no build problems.  I believe that I've
> seen first problems around the beginning of February but didn't pay much
> attention initially.  Things got very annoying in the past seven or ten
> days and particularly on Windows: After yesterday's continuous failures
> on Windows, pulling an even larger changeset on GNU/Linux today had all
> builds proceed without complications.

Are the failures always with outdated Lisp files?  Or are they due to
other aspects of the build?