From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems building CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:05:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87vdxt8zkb.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219381583 7639 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 05:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow , Francis Litterio Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 07:07:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWOrT-00058v-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWOqW-0007b5-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWOqQ-0007ay-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWOqO-0007aZ-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37674 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWOqO-0007aW-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:59190) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWOqN-0007rG-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K5Z00EEYKUGV891@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:06:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vdxt8zkb.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102807 Archived-At: > From: Eric Hanchrow > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:05:08 -0700 > > This sounds depressingly similar to the problem I reported here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/100565 > > I never got a solution to it, although my message started a flame war. The _real_ problem is not the flame war, but the fact that you and Francis are so far the only ones who see these failures. Quite a few people, including myself, use MinGW to build the CVS all the time, and this problem never happened to us. Your report was about Vista, so I thought it was specific to that OS, to which I have no easy access. Francis had this on XP, which is an important piece of new information. So I'm now wondering what is special on your two machines that causes these failures. Here are a few questions, for starters: . What are your development tools and their versions? Please include version information about MinGW itself (from its header files), w32 API package, versions of GCC, Binutils, any sh.exe you may have installed, Make, and the cp.exe and rm.exe used for the build. . Do you use any Cygwin or MSYS tools for the build, and if so, what are they? . Does the problem happen in byte compiling _any_ file, or just with some? If the latter, please list a dozen files that have this problem and post the corresponding error messages. . Is the byte-compiling problem still there after you build Emacs using *.elc files produced on another system or by another version of Emacs?