Re: Boostrap error

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

Well this is strange:

I'm using that patch, using this as the pattern:

(defconst w32-cygdrive-name-regexp "\\`\\(?:/cygdrive\\)?/\\(.\\)/")

If I run make I get:
---

"./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
autoload \
        --eval '(setq find-file-hook nil \
                find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
                generated-autoload-file \
                  "/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' \
        -f batch-update-autoloads /cygdrive/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
handler expand-file-name (subdirs.el /:/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp)
Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Signal 127

---

But if I run that same command from the command line, it works, though 
the initial output is different:

handler file-name-as-directory (/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp)
handler expand-file-name (/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/. nil)
handler expand-file-name (/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp nil)
handler expand-file-name 
(/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el 
c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp)
handler file-name-directory 
(/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el)
handler expand-file-name (/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/ nil)
handler file-name-directory 
(/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el)
........

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I'm afraid that my lisp is appalling at best.  It looks to me that when 
called from make, it take a different route even though the command line 
is the same.  Very strange.

Guy

Jan D. wrote:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> : handler expand-file-name (subdirs.el /:/d/src/emacs-cygwin/lisp)
>> : Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
>> : Signal 127
>> : make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
>> : make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/src/emacs-cygwin/lisp'
>> : make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2
>>
>> Please look at the regexp in the beginning of the file I attached 
>> before. I
>> was uncertain of whether to use "cygdrive" or "cygwin", I do not use 
>> Cygwin
>> myself. This can maybe explain the first error.
>
>
> It is cygdrive by default, but it really can be set to anything.  I 
> don't use cygwin either, I only got it installed so I could test the 
> build process under Windows.  I don't think I will spend any more time 
> on this, I have other things to do and Windows is not my preferred 
> platform.  Besides, the solution you are proposing only handles a 
> special case, not the general case.  If it where up to me, I'd let 
> configure check if cygpath is usable, and if not, require that the 
> user supply the dos path to configure (--dospath=c:/whatever/emacs) 
> and use that for buildlisppath and lisp in the makefiles for leim and 
> lisp respectively.  But again, this is not my platform of choice, so 
> the ones working on this must do what they think is best.
>
>     Jan D.
>
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