From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NT mingw/msys build problem Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:00:26 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <011301c4baad$b282c680$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <417CB924.8080107@wyrdrune.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098720880 18497 80.91.229.6 (25 Oct 2004 16:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 18:14:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CM7UG-0003UD-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:14:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CM7bu-0000OY-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CM7bm-0000NU-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:22:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CM7bl-0000Mw-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CM7bk-0000Mm-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.113] (helo=av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CM7Tt-0002qh-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C310737EBB; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.163]) by av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DF137E42; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p112.telia.com [195.252.57.112]) by smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C1D7B37E5B; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Guy Gascoigne-Piggford" , "Emacs Devel" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28926 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28926 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Gascoigne-Piggford" To: "Emacs Devel" Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:28 AM Subject: NT mingw/msys build problem : I've been trying to track down a problem that my NT build has when : building with the latest mingw+msys environment. Emacs builds and runs, : but certain autoloads seem to be missing, after much hunting through : build logs I ended out with this being the cause of the problem: : : Eventually make runs this: : : "./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l : autoload \ : --eval '(setq find-file-hooks nil \ : find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \ : generated-autoload-file \ : "c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' \ : -f batch-update-autoloads c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp calc calendar : emacs-lisp emulation eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net : obsolete play progmodes term textmodes toolbar url : : the output of which is: : : Wrote c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el : Loading vc-cvs... : Wrote c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el : Autoloads file : c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el : does not exist This does not work because MSYS sh converts / to \ if the executable is outside of MSYS /bin or /usr/bin. Maybe it is a good idea for some programs but not for Emacs as can be seen here. Emacs must be handled as the programs in the bin-directories (no path style conversion). They should rethink the conversion a bit I believe. I will further this example to MSYS mailing list. - Lennart