Re: compiling emacs using cygwin

[David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>]

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.