Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 06 Nov 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:59:26 +0000
>> 
>> When "make bootstrap" reruns configure, it produces different output
>> to configure run on its own, and it looks like it is ignoring the
>> site config that msysconfig provides.
>
> Not here.  If it does that on your system, that's some bug that needs
> to be investigated.

Thanks for the hint Eli - you are right as usual.

After further investigation this turned out to be a problem in my
wrapper script which was passing configure args in the environment
rather than on the configure command line.

This is explained nicely in "Defining Variables" in autoconf info.

    AndyM