Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Christoph Conrad]

I _did_ nmake bootstrap.

cp: Aufruf von stat für "obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe" nicht möglich: No such file
or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cp': R³ckgabe-Code '0x1'

(German messages) That means: cant call stat on
"obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe": No such file or directory

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Jason Rumney]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> I _did_ nmake bootstrap.
>
> cp: Aufruf von stat für "obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe" nicht möglich: No such file
> or directory
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cp': R³ckgabe-Code '0x1'
>
> (German messages) That means: cant call stat on
> "obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe": No such file or directory
>   

What version of Emacs are you trying to build?
Have you built with that compiler before? When?
At which stage in the compilation process does this happen?

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Jason,

> What version of Emacs are you trying to build?

Current CVS Version.

> Have you built with that compiler before? When?

Numerous times in the past since january.

> At which stage in the compilation process does this happen?

Messages directly before the error message:

============================================================
Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under the name emacs
Dumping from d:/user/cco/emacs-cvs/src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe
          to d:/user/cco/emacs-cvs/src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe
68703 pure bytes used
        mkdir "../bin"
Subdirectory or file with name "../bin" already exists.
        cp -f obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe ../bin
        nmake  bootstrap-clean

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility, Version 7.10.3077
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

        rm obj-spd/i386/alloc.obj
        rm obj-spd/i386/data.obj
        rm obj-spd/i386/intervals.obj
        rm obj-spd/i386/keyboard.obj
        rm obj-spd/i386/keymap.obj
        cp -f obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe ../bin
============================================================

Commands executed in cmd.exe-Shell:

- vcvars32
- .\configure --with-msvc --without-xpm --without-png --without-jpeg \
            --without-tiff   --without-gif
- nmake bootstrap

Best regards,
Christoph

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Jason Rumney]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
>   
>> What version of Emacs are you trying to build?
>>     
>
> Current CVS Version.
>   

Strange, the following change should have fixed this exact bug:

2007-07-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

    * makefile.w32-in (bootstrap, bootstrap-nmake, bootstrap-gmake):
    Depend on cmdproxy.


Does nmake have any debug flags that show what commands are being run
when, so you can debug this?

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,

On 8/14/07, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> Christoph Conrad wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> >
> >> What version of Emacs are you trying to build?
> >>
> >
> > Current CVS Version.
> >
>
> Strange, the following change should have fixed this exact bug:
>
> 2007-07-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
>
>     * makefile.w32-in (bootstrap, bootstrap-nmake, bootstrap-gmake):
>     Depend on cmdproxy.
>
>
> Does nmake have any debug flags that show what commands are being run
> when, so you can debug this?

I can confirm the bootstrap failure using VC 2003. The strange part is
that the 'cp' of cmdproxy.exe is called and cmdproxy.exe is available
in the folder but fails to get copied to 'bin' folder. I am trying to
debug as I have both MinGW and VC build environment.

--------------
E:\cache\build\emacs\nt
[dky]nmake /NOLOGO /N bootstrap
        cd ..\lisp
        nmake  bootstrap-clean
        cd ..\src
        nmake  clean
        cd ..\lib-src
        nmake  clean
        cd ..\src
        nmake  bootstrap
        nmake  bootstrap-clean
        cp -f obj-spd/i386/cmdproxy.exe ../bin
        cd ..\lisp
        nmake  SHELL=CMD bootstrap
        cd ..\lib-src
        nmake  DOC
        cd ..\nt
        nmake   all
-------------

-dky

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,
 I found the problem. We need to change back to the 'nt' folder. The
following patch fixes the issue.

-dky


*** emacs.3661d004ffb8\nt\makefile.w32-in       2007-08-14
20:56:41.218750000 +0530
--- E:\cache\build\emacs\nt\makefile.w32-in     2007-08-14
20:56:27.156250000 +0530
*************** bootstrap-nmake: addsection cmdproxy
*** 153,158 ****
--- 153,159 ----
        cd ..\src
        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap
        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean
+       cd ..\nt
        $(CP) $(BLD)/cmdproxy.exe ../bin
        cd ..\lisp
        $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) SHELL=$(SHELLTYPE) bootstrap

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Jason Rumney]

Thanks. I've checked it in to the release branch, it should flow through
to the other branches as the syncs are done.

dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
>  I found the problem. We need to change back to the 'nt' folder. The
> following patch fixes the issue.
>
> -dky
>
>
> *** emacs.3661d004ffb8\nt\makefile.w32-in       2007-08-14
> 20:56:41.218750000 +0530
> --- E:\cache\build\emacs\nt\makefile.w32-in     2007-08-14
> 20:56:27.156250000 +0530
> *************** bootstrap-nmake: addsection cmdproxy
> *** 153,158 ****
> --- 153,159 ----
>         cd ..\src
>         $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap
>         $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap-clean
> +       cd ..\nt
>         $(CP) $(BLD)/cmdproxy.exe ../bin
>         cd ..\lisp
>         $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) SHELL=$(SHELLTYPE) bootstrap
>
>   

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,
 Another small problem I noticed. Using MinGW build, after a
bootstrap, the emacs.exe under the 'bin' folder gets deleted. This
happens for the bootstrap target under 'lisp' folder. Due to this, a
later 'make recompile' fails. I propose not deleting the emacs.exe
from the 'bin' folder.

diff -r 3661d004ffb8 lisp/makefile.w32-in
--- a/lisp/makefile.w32-in      Mon Aug 13 13:40:47 2007 +0000
+++ b/lisp/makefile.w32-in      Tue Aug 14 22:09:24 2007 +0530
@@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ bootstrap-clean-SH:
 # it will not be mistaken for an installed binary.

 bootstrap: update-subdirs autoloads mh-autoloads compile finder-data
custom-deps
-       - $(DEL) "$(EMACS)"

 #
 # Assuming INSTALL_DIR is defined, copy the elisp files to it

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:13:22 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> 
> Hi,
>  Another small problem I noticed. Using MinGW build, after a
> bootstrap, the emacs.exe under the 'bin' folder gets deleted. This
> happens for the bootstrap target under 'lisp' folder. Due to this, a
> later 'make recompile' fails. I propose not deleting the emacs.exe
> from the 'bin' folder.

Please describe the sequence of commands that causes the recompile
target to be run during bootstrap after deleting bin/emacs.exe.  I
don't see the recompile target anywhere in the list of targets or
commands run as part of "make bootstrap" in the lisp subdirectory.
What am I missing?

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,

On 8/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> don't see the recompile target anywhere in the list of targets or
> commands run as part of "make bootstrap" in the lisp subdirectory.
> What am I missing?

Apologies for not providing the complete information. When I keep
updating from CVS/HG repo, I do an explicit 'recompile'. It does not
get called by any top level 'bootstrap'. Earlier, I used to copy the
emacs.exe again into the 'bin' folder. An alternative would be to use
the emacs.exe in the $BLD folder. This can avoid the extra copy into
the 'bin' folder. Anyway, this is just a trivial inconvenience issue,
we could live with out any change though.

-dky

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:33:48 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> 
> Apologies for not providing the complete information. When I keep
> updating from CVS/HG repo, I do an explicit 'recompile'.

In that case, there should be no problem.  After a "make bootstrap",
you are supposed to run "make install", which copies the dumped
emacs.exe into bin.  And if you run "make recompile" after syncing
with CVS and "make" rebuilds emacs.exe, just say this:

    make recompile EMACS=../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe

As Jason pointed out it is wrong to leave bootstrap emacs.exe around,
but the subsequent "make install" should solve that.

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,

On 8/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>     make recompile EMACS=../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe

Is it possible (technically) to use the emacs in the BLD folder
instead of the one under 'bin'? The emacs executable will be always
under the BLD folder before a call to 'recompile', am I right in this
assumption?

-dky

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:22 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> 
> On 8/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >     make recompile EMACS=../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe
> 
> Is it possible (technically) to use the emacs in the BLD folder
> instead of the one under 'bin'?

Yes.  That's exactly what the command I show above does.

emacs.exe in the BLD directory is a normal dumped Emacs, it's just not
installed in `bin', and, possibly, didn't yet pick up all the latest
doc strings due to modified Lisp files.  "make install" handles both
of these issues, but for compiling Lisp files, emacs.exe in BLD is
usually good enough.

> The emacs executable will be always under the BLD folder before a
> call to 'recompile', am I right in this assumption?

"make recompile" doesn't do anything with emacs.exe, so I'm unsure
what you are asking here.

In any case, if bin/emacs.exe is up to date, it's better to use it
than src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe, because the former is guaranteed to
have all the latest changes in doc strings and have all the latest
Lisp files preloaded into it.

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[dhruva]

Hi,

On 8/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> "make recompile" doesn't do anything with emacs.exe, so I'm unsure
> what you are asking here.

It is just for the sake of completeness. On a default build setup
using MinGW, if I do a 'make recompile', it fails. I need to send the
extra arguments (as suggested by you) or copy the emacs.exe to the
'bin' folder. Using emacs.exe in the BLD folder by default would
ensure default call 'make recompile' succeed. IMHO, the 'recompile'
target is required in the development environment to compile the
updated lisp files.

with best regards,
dhruva

-- 
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Jason Rumney]

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wrote:
> Hi,
>  Another small problem I noticed. Using MinGW build, after a
> bootstrap, the emacs.exe under the 'bin' folder gets deleted.

If it only happens with a mingw build, then it is a problem with the
msvc build.
The emacs.exe used for bootstrapping is dumped with uncompiled lisp
files, so it is deleted deliberately.

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi,

> We need to change back to the 'nt' folder. The following patch fixes
> the issue.

I can confirm that. Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Christoph

Re: Bootstrapping CVS Emacs fails with VC 2003 on Windows XP Professional

[Christoph Conrad]

Hi Jason,

> Does nmake have any debug flags that show what commands are being run
> when, so you can debug this?

nmake /D should do this, but unfortunately it does not do what it
should. Strange. Can not investigate further this week.

Best regards,
Christoph