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: compiling emacs using cygwin Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:15:00 +0100 Message-ID: <46585cfc$1_4@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 1180197664 25803 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2007 16:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 16:41:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 18:41:02 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 1HrzK9-0001Gs-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 18:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrzK9-000478-H3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 12:41:01 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 81 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.47.93.231 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-X-Trace: 26 May 2007 17:14:56 +0100, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!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:148876 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:44464 Archived-At: Hi, My problem is that M-x agrep M-x fgrep and all other greps produce the message as > symbol's value as variable is void: grep-null-device A google search told me that this was because emacs was badly installed. I am using the win32 patch, the source of which seems to be included in the \nt directory of cvs release. So I thought that doing a build would be as easy as building ruby. I was very much wrong. 3 hours later. I do cd /nt ./configure.bat make bootstrap it chugs away nicely for 3 minutes and then we get the error as follows Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/vc-hooks.el (source)... Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/ediff-hook.el (source)... Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/tooltip.el (source)... ((262207 . 4526) (12896 . 2) (656 . 111) 1819491 248270 (100 . 2) (19 . 43) (27722 . 502)) Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Dumping under the name emacs 68559 pure bytes used Dumping from c:/temp/emacs/src/oo-spd/i386/temacs.exe to c:/temp/emacs/src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe mkdir "../bin" mkdir: cannot create directory `../bin': File exists make[1]: [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1 (ignored) cp -f oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe ../bin make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src' make -C ../src bootstrap-clean [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional] /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src' rm oo-spd/i386/alloc.o rm oo-spd/i386/data.o rm oo-spd/i386/intervals.o rm oo-spd/i386/keyboard.o rm oo-spd/i386/keymap.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src' make -C ../lisp bootstrap [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional] /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp' /cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs /cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp; \ for file in calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net play progmodes term textmodes url obsolete; do \ /cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \ done; Directories: . calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net play progmodes term textmodes url "./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload \ --eval '(setq find-file-hook nil find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t)' \ -f w32-batch-update-autoloads "/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el" . calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net play progmodes term textmodes url Cannot open load file: encoded-kb make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp' make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2