Re: Building cvs emacs on a dual-core machine

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:03:56 +0100
> 
> Ok, here's where it errors out (same with --jobs=2 and --jobs=4):
> gcc -I. -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -D_X86_=1 -c 
> -mno-cygwin -mtune=pentium4 -O2  -Di386 -D_CRTAPI1
> =_cdecl    -o oo-spd/i386/preprep.o preprep.c
> gcc -o oo-spd/i386/preprep.exe \
>                      -mno-cygwin  oo-spd/i386/preprep.o
> 
> Essential Lisp files seem to be missing.  You should either
> do `make bootstrap' or create `lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow.
> 
> mingw32-make: *** [maybe-bootstrap-SH] Error 255
> 
> Yes, sorry, I'm on Windows.

That's an important piece of knowledge ;-)

What version of Make do you have?  What does "mingw32-make --version"
print?  The --jobs option started to work correctly on Windows only in
the latest version 3.81 of GNU Make.  If you don't have that version
of Make, --jobs will be very unreliable on Windows.

Also, note that, since the jobserver feature in Make is currently not
suppoorted on Windows, the sub-Make's are invoked with the implied
"--jobs=1" option, in effect defeating parallelism in recusrive Make
invocations.  You will have to tweak the recursive Make invocations in
the Makefile's to explicitly pass the --jobs=2 option to recursive
Make's, in order to see parallelism in subdirectories.

Also, what port of sh.exe do you have?

> You mentioned build log, what else information can I provide to help 
> track this problem down?

Instead of just "mingw32-make --jobs=4 bootstrap" run this command
(from the CMD prompt):

   mingw32-make --jobs=4 --debug=j bootstrap 2>&1 | tee build.txt

The file build.txt will then capture all the output of the build
session; post that file here.

(I assume that you have a port of GNU `tee'; if not, you will have to
install it, or capture the session output in some other way.)

I see already a few problems with --jobs related to Windows, but I'd
like to see the information requested above to make sure I don't miss
anything.

TIA