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Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16772: closed (Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:56:03 +0000

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:40:20 +0100

Package: emacs
Version: 24.3.50

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried to make a full bootstrap + "make install", on
> MS-Windows and from the current trunk (last time I tried was 13 days
> ago), and "make install" fails like this:

Why didn't you file a bug report for it?

> Installing utilities for users to run.
> umask 022; /bin/mkdir -p
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/bin"
> for file in runemacs.exe addpm.exe ; do \
>   /bin/install -c  ${file}
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/bin"/`echo
> ${file} | sed -e 's/.exe$//' -e 's,x,x,'`.exe ; \
> done
> /bin/install -c -m 644 README.W32
> "/usr/home/dani/emacs/install/emacs-r116453-20140216-w32-bin/share/emacs/24.3.50"
> /bin/install: cannot stat `README.W32': No such file or directory
> Makefile:168: recipe for target `install' failed
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/dani/emacs/build/nt'
> Makefile:509: recipe for target `install-nt' failed
> make: *** [install-nt] Error 2
>
>
> Commit 116425 is related to "README.W32", so the problem might come from there.

I'm pretty sure that's the problem, yes.

Which directory is current when the "/bin/install ... README.32"
command is executed?

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16772-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:25 +0100

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Anyway, DESTDIR must be an absolute file name, see my other mail.

Closing this bug, then. Thanks.

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