From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compiling emacs using cygwin Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:48:17 +0100 Message-ID: <467573d5$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> References: <46585cfc$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> <46596fd9_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> <465c0547$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> <4672a448$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182105639 18243 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 18:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 20:40:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hzzft-0003jY-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzzfs-0007Fb-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:40:32 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 32 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.43.153.196 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-X-Trace: 17 Jun 2007 18:48:06 +0100, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!tiscali!newsfeed2.ip.tiscali.net!212.74.112.120.MISMATCH!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.tiscali.com!mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149545 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45134 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > Cygwin c:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/repository/gccsource/gcc-4.1.2 > make bootstrap > > Configuring in build-i686-pc-cygwin/libiberty > > /bin/sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory > > make: *** [configure-build-libiberty] Error 1 > > Cygwin c:/Documents and Settings/All > > Users/Documents/repository/gccsource/gcc-4.1.2 > > > Try again, and this time unpack the tarball into some directory whose > name doesn't contain a space. > yes this worked thanks i now have gcc-4.1.2 on cygwin still failed though on nt version configure failed says it needs gcc-2.95 or later with minGW and the w32 API headers or msvc 2.x or later on cygwin version the configure sucessfully creates a makefile, but the makefile fails cannot load file ~/.abbrev_defs it exists alright As incidental additional failures I tried building cygwin from source and the configure fails too I tried building x server from source and the make fails after a long time For X server I have the necessary installed components except fileutils which I cannot find on the cygwin setup panel.