Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:43:03 -0300
> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> 
> I'm trying to test them, but I'm unable to bootstrap EMACS_21_1_RC on
> W95 (with or without my changes) because of a problem with
> `grep-compute-defaults' during the making of the custom-deps target:
> 
> > Saving file c:/BIN/emacs/EMACS_21_1_RC/lisp/cus-load.el...
> > Symbol's function definition is void: grep-compute-defaults

Sorry, cannot help you here: I never saw anything like that.  (But I
didn't try to bootstrap on Windows 9X either.)

> Another problem: several targets (bootstrap-clean, compile-files, etc.) do
> nested fors, and COMMAND.COM chokes on them.

If you cannot work around this, perhaps we should require Bash on
Windows 9X?

> And finally a question: why is bootstrapping contingent on having a diff
> program (and maybe also grep, I'm not sure)?

What parts of the bootstrap need those programs?