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bug#8564: 24.0.50; bootstrap on windows 7: `gl-stamp' target failed
From: |
William Xu |
Subject: |
bug#8564: 24.0.50; bootstrap on windows 7: `gl-stamp' target failed |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:19:20 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Uh-oh! Is this the MSYS port of Bash, by any chance? Or maybe the
Cygwin Bash? If so, can you remove sh.exe from PATH and try again?
At least the MSYS Bash has a nasty habit of munging the command-line
arguments if it "thinks" that those arguments are Unix-style /foo/bar
file names. So my crystal ball says that it "thinks" "/c" in "cmd /c"
is such a file name and changes it to something like "cmd L:/c", which
of course totally confuses cmd.exe.
You will see that nt/INSTALL advises against the MSYS shell:
MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various
problems. If you have MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to
force the use of cmd.exe instead of sh.exe.
OK. That is the problem! It is a MSYS bash, included in msys-git.
Thanks.
It seems kind of nasty, though. We reply on unix tools like cp, rm,
etc, but they are often bundled together with sh. Maybe add the above
note to "* For the impatient" section as well would be a good idea?
--
William
http://xwl.appspot.com