Re: configure-more.zip

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I might be misunderstanding this but is there not a problem starting 
> > make since Makefile might have this trouble?
> >    
>
> Perhaps so, but unless we understand the gory details of that failure,
> we cannot reason about it.  If you can describe and explain what
> exactly goes wrong, please do.  (On my machine, I don't think I saw
> this particular problem, even when I first checked-out files without
> -kb.)
Well, here is that black box mystery. I deleted the nt subdirectory and 
checked it out again. I confirm with chkukb.exe (CHK Update KB) that the 
files indeed have that problem now. Then I do

D:\ecvs\bld\emacs\nt>make
', needed by `which-sh'.  Stop.t `

D:\ecvs\bld\emacs\nt>make --debug
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
File `all' does not exist.
  File `which-sh' does not exist.
' does not exist.
'.  Must remake target `
', needed by `which-sh'.  Stop.t `

D:\ecvs\bld\emacs\nt>make -d

... long (42k) - I pug it here 
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/more/make-d.tmp