Re: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.*

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Eric Lilja wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>> Eric Lilja wrote:
>>> Here's the full session log performed on fresh cvs checkout (old 
>>> files removed first). Hope attaching it works (posting through 
>>> gmane, it's rather big), I can host it if it doesn't work.
>>
>>     mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory 
>> `c:/blandat/editors/emacs/cvsemacs/emacs/admin/unidata'
>>     "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch -f 
>> batch-byte-compile unidata-gen.el
>>     Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
>>
>> Search the archives for this message. It is a symptom of some problem 
>> with your build environment, I can't remember exactly what.
>
> Good catch, however, I can't find any information that helps me solve 
> the problem (I googled it). It seems to be a problem when running 
> carbon emacs (I'm not) or when trying to compile native windows emacs 
> with cygwin's make (I'm not, I'm using mingw-make).
Yes, it was the latter I was remembering. Cygwin make passes Cygwin 
paths to Emacs, causing problems finding files. The same problem could 
happen with MSYS, as that also uses munged paths to emulate a unix-like 
filesystem.
Its possible that a fix for this problem was lost in the unicode merge.