bug#16429: bug#18765: Re: Re: Re: bug#18765: Emacs 24.4 release candidate 1: "term/w32-win.el" is missing on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 18765@debbugs.gnu.org, 16429@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:15:47 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If you know how, please suggest a method.
> 
> Either a command-line option meaning "ignore the registry", which gets
> added to the Makefile Emacs flags

How does this help when the user just invokes "emacs" with no options,
as in this case?

> or, if environment variables trump the registry, change it so that
> empty environment variables mean "use the defaults" (right now they
> just break things), and change the Makefiles to set empty
> environment variables rather than unsetting them like they do now
> (seemed not straightforward last time I looked).

Why are you talking about the Makefile?  The problem ws not in
invoking Emacs from the Makefile, it was in interactive usage after
the build is done (in bug #18765).