Re: on emacs 28 for windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:19:33 -0300
> From: Wayne Harris via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> There is something in the emacs source code that is sensitive to the
> existence of the directory lib-src.

Of course, there is: that's how Emacs detects that it is being run
from the tree where it was built.  In that case, it determines where
to find its files and how to configure its load-path differently.

So my suggestion would be: "don't do that".