---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: zhiqiang yu Date: Dec 5, 2005 10:06 PM Subject: please giving focus on the this build error message! To: emacs-devel@gnu.org. is that a big problem, i have ever seek for help in emacs mail list for many times for the same error. but to my disappointment, i got no exact answers. can anyone could help to find out the solution. i built the emacs of CVS on winxp with nmake. the configure could be very smooth without additional image lib supporting. however during the nmake bootstrap process, i got the following error which made the build process stop. D:\soft\emacs\lisp>"D:\soft\emacs\lisp/../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file - -no-site-file --multibyte -l loaddefs -f batch-byte-compile-if-not-done url/vc-d av.el Loading subst-jis... Loading subst-ksc... Loading subst-big5... Loading subst-gb2312... In toplevel form: url/vc-dav.el:29:1:Error: Cannot open doc string file "d:/soft/emacs/etc/DOC" NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'for' : return code '0x1' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\N MAKE.EXE"' : return code '0x2' Stop. could anyone help me with this error message? thx!