Re: NT mingw/msys build problem

[Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <guy@wyrdrune.com>]

Well I got everything built and working correctly.  In the end I had 
take msys off my path and use cygwin as the host instead.  That and 
mingw, and emacs build perfectly.

Thank you all for your help and suggestions.

Guy

Lennart Borgman wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Guy Gascoigne-Piggford" <guy@wyrdrune.com>
>To: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:28 AM
>Subject: NT mingw/msys build problem
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>: 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:
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>: Eventually make runs this:
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>: "./../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
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