Re: Build failure on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:59:08 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  > No need to bootstrap (I never do, as it deletes the old binaries I
>  > keep for testing and bisection).  What you need is manually
>  > byte-compile a few of the Lisp files updated: cl-lib.el, pp.el,
>  > re-builder.el, and abbrev.el.
> 
> ... I am supposed to recompile abbrev.el and cl-lib.el and continue the
> build.  Correct?  Then this should be added to the INSTALL instructions
> either in the source directory or in the nt directory if this is Windows
> specific.  Pretty please.

The Lisp files that need to be recompiled by hand changes every time,
so it's hard to say something specific.  Besides, my impression is
that avoiding bootstrap is frowned upon in certain quarters...