I ran across this while trying to upgrade our company's internal Windows CE build from 2.5.2 to either 2.6 or 3.1. In the 2.5 era, the Windows version of make_buildinfo used to fall back to just copying the getbuildinfo.c file from \Modules if subwcrev failed; since 2.6, make_buildinfo fails the build if the compilation of getbuildinfo.c fails when make_buildinfo is run, without falling back to copying. Any reason not to keep the fallback strategy in the process? The new process fails in cross-compilation scenarios (like building for Windows CE on a Windows host) because, while the VC++ solution can be told to build native (win32) binaries for make_buildinfo and make_versioninfo, when make_buildinfo tries to compile via its hardcoded call to cl.exe, it tries to use the cross-compiler without the required flags from the cross-compilation configs in the vcproj files. Thanks! -- Tim Lesher <tlesher@gmail.com>