Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:39:07 +0100

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]> wrote:

> bindir=../myinstalldir/bin
> datarootdir=../myinstalldir/share
> libexecdir=../myinstalldir/libexec

The value of $(datadir) you reported, "../myinstalldir/share" is
consistent with these values.

Perhaps it's simply that the directory hasn't been created yet. Try

=== modified file 'nt/Makefile.in'
--- nt/Makefile.in 2014-02-13 03:19:57 +0000
+++ nt/Makefile.in 2014-02-17 15:38:27 +0000
@@ -172,4 +172,5 @@
   $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $(INSTALL_STRIP) $${file}
"$(DESTDIR)${bindir}"/`echo $${file} | sed -e 's/${EXEEXT}$$//' -e
'$(TRANSFORM)'`${EXEEXT} ; \
  done
+ ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)${datadir}/emacs/$(version)"
  $(INSTALL_DATA) README.W32 "$(DESTDIR)${datadir}/emacs/$(version)"