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 10:27:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fxoxqyvf.fsf@kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219415515 25034 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 14:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:31:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 16:32:47 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 1KWXgl-0001ui-6t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWXfm-0001ek-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:31:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWXfh-0001eP-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWXfe-0001dv-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34643 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWXfe-0001dr-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34847 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 1KWXfe-0002Hz-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KWXfU-0008Pt-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:31:12 +0000 Original-Received: from shell01.theworld.com ([192.74.137.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:31:12 +0000 Original-Received: from flitterio by shell01.theworld.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:31:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Draft-From: ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.devel" 102810) Gcc: nnfolder:sent-usenet X-Random-Quote: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hKkRKSlDUHfu+/8jcDrqY6XXzas= 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:102826 Archived-At: Ivan Kanis wrote: > Francis Litterio writes: > >> When I try to build CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW (following the >> instructions in emacs/nt/INSTALL, of course), I get this error during >> "make bootstrap": >> >> Generating autoloads for language/vietnamese.el... >> Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 3917, 3960 >> mingw32-make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255 >> mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/franl/cvs/emacs/lisp' >> mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2 > > Funny, I saw that error today on XP and with MinGW, yesterday. I > removed the file and it crapped much, much later on european.el. Me too. In my case, the make proceeds past the byte-compiler errors, but finally dies with: mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lisp/language/european.elc', needed by `DOC'. Stop. mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2 which is simply fallout from an earlier byte-compiler error for european.el: Compiling language/european.el In toplevel form: language/european.el:237:1:Error: Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" I will put together the info that Eli has requested as soon as possible and post it to this list. -- Fran