From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build issue GNU Emacs 21.3 on MinGW32 GCC - W2K Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:51:09 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3405-Tue25Feb2003205108+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <20030224162531.041934E166@server2.fastmail.fm> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046200676 25788 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 19:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nkaP-0006hl-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18nkqT-0005MY-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkF5-00075Y-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkEQ-00074D-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:55:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkEN-00073l-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nkEM-00073G-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (adsl-ayalon-pc-129-36.inter.net.il [213.8.129.36]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AGV73646; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:55:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: seagull@fastmail.fm X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <20030224162531.041934E166@server2.fastmail.fm> (seagull@fastmail.fm) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11940 > From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:55:30 +0530 > > When I do a "gmake bootstrap" (MinGW32 - GCC 3.3/GCC 3.2.1/GCC 3.2.2 on > W2K) > Build fails at the following locations: > - calendar/lunar.el (EMACS Abort) > - calendar/solar.el (EMACS Abort) > - gnus/gnus-cite.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/gnus-draft.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/gnus-dup.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/gnus-mh.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/gnus-uu.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/gnus-vm.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/nnsoup.el (SEGV crash) > - gnus/nnvirtual.el (SEGV crash) > > I am sorry if I have bored some of you with my persistent mails. I fear > that we may end up loosing MinGW support for compiling GNU Emacs and will > end up depending on MSVC. I, for one, appreciate your persistence very much. However, given that the resources for working on the Windows port are very scarce at the moment, how about if you try to debug this yourself? I'm sure people here, including myself, will be more than willing to offer help if you report some findings and ask for further guidance, even though those same people cannot themselves work on the problem. > For me a true FSF GNU Emacs is when there is no forced dependency on > commercial compilers or build tools. Very true, IMHO. TIA