Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin

["William Xue" <william.xue@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:24:28 +0800, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Eli, you mentioned 'transcript', is it the following?
>> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8---
>> [williamx@williamnb emacs]$ make bootstrap
>
> Yes, thanks.
>
>> `/bin/pwd`/temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
>> Loading loadup.el (source)...
>> Using load-path (/src/opensource/emacs/lisp
>> /src/opensource/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp  
>> /src/opensource/emacs/lisp/language
>> /src/opensource/emacs/lisp/international
>> /src/opensource/emacs/lisp/textmodes)
>> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
>> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
>> Loading subr (source)...
>> Loading version.el (source)...
>> Loading widget (source)...
>> Loading custom (source)...
>> Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp (source)...
>> Loading env (source)...
>> Loading cus-start (source)...
>> Loading international/mule (source)...
>> Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
>> mv -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe
>> mv: cannot stat `emacs.exe': No such file or directory
>
> This shows the problem very clearly: for some reason, the command that
> should have produced emacs.exe didn't run to completion, but rather
> finished prematurely (a.k.a. crashed) after loading only a handful of
> *.el files, the last one being mule-conf.el.
>
> The Cygwin build of Emacs is currently very troubled.  In particular,
> only a few versions of GCC are known to produce a working binary.
> Please see the entry in etc/PROBLEMS whose header is "Building the
> Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version".  Also, you
> will find a few discussions in the archives of this list about similar
> problems that might help you find a solution.

Thank you.

  I have checked the file and it seems that I should upgrade the GCC to 4.0  
first.

I will try the newest GCC release 4.0.1.2 first.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
William