From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 on cygwin bootstrap failed. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:20:27 +0000 Organization: Integra SP Ltd Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <402BC3EB.8030405@gnu.org> References: <87hdxwkyet.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076610426 12848 80.91.224.253 (12 Feb 2004 18:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 19:26:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArLY8-0003nO-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:26:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArLY8-0005lK-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:26:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArLVf-00056C-Q4 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArLU5-0004pX-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:22:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArLTW-0004ek-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.173.204] (helo=integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArLTV-0004eL-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 6227 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 18:09:27 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ntserver.altio.com) (217.207.198.106) by 66.216.96.43 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 18:09:27 -0000 Original-Received: from gnu.org (ALTIOJR [192.168.111.42]) by ntserver.altio.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 1ZS8J0Y3; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:20:25 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, ja Original-To: Eric Hanchrow In-Reply-To: <87hdxwkyet.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19897 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19897 Eric Hanchrow wrote: > "Steven Wu" writes: > > I took the CVS src of Emacs 21.3.50 to cygwin and did make > > bootstrap. >... > > "Harald Maier" responds: > I assume you need the mingw-make 3.79.1. > >I'd like to understand this better -- Harald says that one needs the >MinGW version of `make' to build Emacs under Cygwin. But I am not >sure that's completely correct. > > No it is not correct. Cygwin Emacs *must* be built with Cygwin make, for the same reason as the native w32 Emacs must not be built with Cygwin make (the paths that make produces are incompatible between native Windows applications and Cygwin). >* the Emacs source tree is capable of building two *different* flavors > of Emacs -- 1) the so-called "Win32" version > If you want to "so-call" the w32 version something, you might like to carefully consider whether you call it a "win".