Re: Boostrap error

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Jan D. wrote:

>> Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <guy@wyrdrune.com> writes:
>>
>>> Doing a make bootstrap I've started getting an error loading
>>> encoded-kb.  This is in a completely fresh directory tree, so I don't
>>> think that this is the same problem as the other boostrap error (where
>>> certain .elc files remain and cause problems).
>>>
>>> Does this look familiar to anyone?
>>>
>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp'
>>
>>
>> This is the Cygwin make problem that is mentioned in nt/INSTALL, and
>> was discussed last week. Please try the patch Stefan posted in the
>> thread "autoload failure" (I don't seem to have the message anymore,
>> but you should be able to find it in the archive on lists.gnu.org). We
>> are still waiting for someone to report whether it works or not on
>> Cygwin.
>
>
>
> FWIW, setting buildlisppath to the real DOS path worked for me, i.e.
>
> > make buildlisppath=c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp
>
> for the case above.  I don't know if there is a cygwin command to 
> convert a cygwin path to a DOS path, but if there is, this could be 
> done in the nt/makefile.
>
>     Jan D.
>
We have tried that before, there are different versions of cygpath that 
are command-line compatible so it causes more problems than it solves. 
It would be far more useful to us if someone tried Stefan's patch 
instead of suggesting other workarounds.