From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs from CVS on windows nt failed Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:49:09 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <009901c4b47a$035be3a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <004d01c4b44f$3cf4d1b0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <009201c4b474$c50a2940$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098038976 31283 80.91.229.6 (17 Oct 2004 18:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 17 20:49:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJG5t-0004tR-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:49:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJGD8-0001D2-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJGD2-0001Cx-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:56:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJGD1-0001Cl-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJGD1-0001Ci-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.107] (helo=av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CJG5a-0000r8-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: by av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9B27638091; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E57E37F96 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p100.telia.com [62.20.165.100]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 99CDA37E4F for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Emacs Devel" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28526 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28526 : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Lennart Borgman" : To: "Emacs Devel" : Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:42 PM : Subject: Building Emacs from CVS on windows nt failed : : : : I took some time to download the CVS version and started building it. It : : fails in make boostrap with the following: : : : : Wrote c:/emacscvs/emacs/lisp/finder-inf.el : : touch cus-load.el : : Can't touch cus-load.el - No such file or directory : : make[1]: *** [cus-load.el] Error 1 : : make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/emacscvs/emacs/lisp' : : make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2 : : : Jason Rumney pointed out that cus-load.el is an autogenerated file (which I : saw too late). I can't really understand the makerules for this: : : doit: : : cus-load.el: : touch $@ : : custom-deps: cus-load.el doit : @echo Directories: $(WINS) : -$(emacs) -l cus-dep --eval $(ARGQUOTE)(setq find-file-hooks : nil)$(ARGQUOTE) -f custom-make-dependencies $(lisp) $(WINS) : : Why do custom-deps have "prerequisites"? Could not these just be removed? : (May the "touch $@" should be replaced with a command "touch cus-load.el" at : the bottom - if it is needed?) : : Does the prerequisites have something to do with different make programs? : : Does not this always fail the first time, before cus-load.el exists? (I have : read that many people say that make bootstrap often fails, it that problem : connected with this?) I must answer myself again before someone else worries about this. I still do not understand the make rule (but that is not a big matter, I am not used to make), but I have found the cause of my troubles. There was another version of touch.exe in my path (from NT reskit maybe) that failed when there was no file. That is not posix compliant I guess. The MSYS version does not fail. Sorry for disturbing with this. - Lennart