From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Litterio Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems building CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:27:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vdxt8zkb.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219448296 8449 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 23:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:38:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 23 01:39:09 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 1KWgDk-0005NE-Mv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:39:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWgCn-00061j-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWgCj-00061b-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWgCg-00061N-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59318 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWgCg-00061K-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36442 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWgCf-0007Gb-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KWgCY-0007b8-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:37:54 +0000 Original-Received: from ppp0a026.std.com ([69.38.146.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:37:54 +0000 Original-Received: from flitterio by ppp0a026.std.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:37:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp0a026.std.com X-Draft-From: ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.devel" 102807) Gcc: nnfolder:sent-usenet X-Random-Quote: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SfKii3cntFn+B604gXmqvFSVO/Y= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:102846 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Eric Hanchrow >> >> This sounds depressingly similar to the problem I reported [...] > 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. I didn't realize that on two people had reported this. I tried a build on a machine running a recently-installed Windows XP Professional (plus SP2), and it works! I'll still collect the info that Eli asked for else-thread, but let me say that the machine on which I'm having the build problems was setup by my company's IT department, and may have been _upgraded_ from Windows 2000 instead of getting a fresh XP install. For instance, Windows is installed in C:\WINNT instead of C:\WINDOWS. As well, my company's draconian firewall prevents the machine from getting automatic updates from Microsoft. Instead, a small subset of updates are distributed from an internal WSUS server. So I suspect the problematic machine has a bizarre mixture of old and new system software on it and is incompletely patched. -- Fran