From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: minor windoze build bug Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:37:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <972eebba0511170922n667543bbv5773dc73cc47eb5d@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132256315 16527 80.91.229.2 (17 Nov 2005 19:38:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 20:38:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcpZM-0000hH-6L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:37:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcpZL-0006st-Fy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcpZI-0006sO-W4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:37:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcpZG-0006sB-RA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcpZG-0006s8-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EcpZG-0001Oq-JO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-21-94.inter.net.il [80.230.21.94]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CZR09784 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:37:06 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Martins Krikis In-reply-to: <972eebba0511170922n667543bbv5773dc73cc47eb5d@mail.gmail.com> (message from Martins Krikis on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14147 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:22:31 +0200 > From: Martins Krikis > > Was doing a windoze build of 21.4a, using nmake, VC and a bit of > cygwin. MS build tools were on C-drive but Emacs sources (and Cygwin, > if it matters) on D-drive. temacs.exe got built OK, but couldn't open > "the doc string file": > > Finding pointers to doc strings... > Opening doc string file: no such file or directory, ../etc/DOC-X > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: > '"D:\Martins\emacs-21.4.old\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe"' : return > code '0xffffffff' > Stop. Thank you for your report. > Quick fix for this problem: move Emacs sources somewhere on C-drive, build > there. Afterwards everything can be moved back to D-drive and the install > step can be done from there. Others succeeded building Emacs with MSVC without moving the tree. I suspect that your problem happens because of some bad interaction between NMAKE and that ``bit of Cygwin''. I suggest to make sure you use combinations of tools which are described in nt/INSTALL as successful.