From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10665: 24.0.93; Building for MS Windows using MinGW encounters a build problem in ../emacs-24.0.93/src/makefile Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:55:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83ty3dqatk.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327949939 4306 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2012 18:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10665-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Gallagher, Kevin" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 30 19:58:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRN-0004f0-EN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:58:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRM-0004BS-M9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRJ-0004BN-7P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRH-0003J7-Vi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRH-0003Iw-Sa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwRS-0001Rf-Iq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:59:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 10665 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 10665@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 10665-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D10665.13279498925465 (code D ref 10665); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10665-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jan 2012 18:58:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45570 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwQd-0001Q5-W2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40352) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrwQb-0001PC-SR for 10665-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LYM00I00KBURN00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 10665-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:57:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.57.191]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LYM00IW5KOECT60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:57:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:56243 Archived-At: > From: "Gallagher, Kevin" > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:35:02 -0600 > > The problem is in the generated ../emacs-24.0.93/src/makefile, which > has the following target and associated rule: > > globals.h: gl-stamp > @cmd /c rem true > > In an MinGW/MSYS bash shell, this rule invokes the MS Windows cmd.exe > command interpreter, which issues a prompt and then does not exit, thereby > halting the build. The output from make looks like this, at this point: > > echo timestamp > gl-stamp > Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] > (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. > > c:\emacs-24.0.93\src> This is a known issue with the MSYS Bash. That shell is not supported by the Windows build of Emacs, for this very reason, see nt/INSTALL. Just remove MSYS from your PATH, and you should be able to build EMacs just fine. You don't need a Unixy shell. I'm closing this bug report. Thanks for reporting and digging into this.