Re: old bootstrap error emerges again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Herbert Euler" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:55:18 +0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> The bootstrap process sometimes stops because of the
> etc/DOC file in Windows, but it doesn't in other trials of
> bootstrapping.  This is strange, and I don't know why.

Do you use MSYS on Windows to build Emacs?

> But this never happens after I know it.

Sorry, I don't understand this.  What does it mean ``never happens
after I know it''?  Please explain.

> Before typing 'make bootstrap', just issue
> 
>     $ touch ../etc/DOC
> 
> will avoid this problem perfectly.  I don't find anything broken
> until now.  (If this really matters, please let me know.)

It matters.  I'd like to try to find a solution, but I need to know
the details first.  If you can reproduce this problem at will, please
send the complete transcript of a failed bootstrap.  The commands to
produce such a transcript are like this:

        cd nt
        configure 2>&1 | tee transcript.txt
        make bootstrap 2>&1 | tee -a transcript.txt

(You will need a port of the `tee' command.)  Then post the file
transcript.txt created by these commands.

TIA