(OT) cvs emacs build fails

(OT) cvs emacs build fails

[Peter Lee]

Not sure if this is OT for this group but since I've seen a few build
related questions answered here, I thought I'd try my luck.

I basically ran 'configure.bat' and then 'nmake bootstrap'.  The
bootstrap successfully builds temacs.exe, but then fails when it tries
to use temacs.exe to compile some lisp.  Anyway that's what I'm
assuming happens... I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what
might be the problem.

Below is a log somewhat snipped:

    plee@/cygdrive/e/cvs/emacs/nt
    $ ./configure.bat --cflags -Ie:/gnuwin32/include --ldflags -LIBPATH:e:/gnuwin32/lib
    Checking for 'cp'...
    Checking for 'rm'...
    Checking whether 'cl' is available...
    junk.c
    Using 'MSVC'
    Checking for libpng...
    ...PNG header available, building with PNG support.
    Checking for jpeg-6b...
    ...JPEG header available, building with JPEG support.
    Checking for libgif...
    ...gif_lib.h not found, building without GIF support.
    Checking for tiff...
    ...TIFF header available, building with TIFF support.
    Checking for libXpm...
    ...XPM header available, building with XPM support.
    Generating makefiles
            1 file(s) copied.
            1 file(s) copied.
    config.settings
    nmake.defs
    ..\nt\makefile.w32-in
            1 file(s) copied.
    config.settings
    nmake.defs
    ..\lib-src\makefile.w32-in
            1 file(s) copied.
    config.settings
    nmake.defs
    ..\src\makefile.w32-in
            1 file(s) copied.
    config.settings
    nmake.defs
    ..\lisp\makefile.w32-in
            1 file(s) copied.
    config.settings
    nmake.defs
    ..\leim\makefile.w32-in
            1 file(s) copied.

    Emacs successfully configured.
    Run `nmake' to build, then run `nmake install' to install.

I then ran nmake bootstrap.

    plee@/cygdrive/e/cvs/emacs/nt
    $ nmake bootstrap
    <snip cleans>
    <snip compiling/building temacs.exe>
	"e:\cvs\emacs\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe" -batch -l loadup bootstrap
    Loading loadup.el (source)...
    Using load-path (../lisp e:/cvs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp e:/cvs/emacs/lisp/language e:/cvs/emacs/lisp/international e:/cvs/emacs/lisp/textmodes)
    Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
    Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
    Loading subr (source)...
    Loading version.el (source)...
    Loading widget (source)...
    Loading custom (source)...
    Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp (source)...
    Loading env (source)...
    Loading cus-start (source)...
    Note, built-in variable `x-use-underline-position-properties' not bound
    Loading international/mule (source)...
    Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
    Loading format (source)...
    Loading bindings (source)...
    Loading files (source)...
    Loading cus-face (source)...
    Loading faces (source)...
    Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
    while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
    ((85071 . 20844) (5135 . 22) (563 . 124) 315468 22244 (8 . 1) (17 . 0) (6449 . 859))
    Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
    ((103124 . 4946) (7361 . 0) (571 . 116) 1065341 22244 (34 . 33) (17 . 0) (13129 . 38))
    Loading simple (source)...
    Loading help (source)...
    Loading international/mule-cmds (source)...
    Symbol's value as variable is void: menu-bar-options-menu
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"e:\cvs\emacs\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff'
    Stop.

Any ideas as to what it's choking on?  I tried manually launching
temacs.exe and it crashes.  My image/zlib support dlls are in the
path.

TIA.

Re: (OT) cvs emacs build fails

[Peter Lee]

Gah, forgot to mention my machine specs.  I'm doing this on xp
professional... the build was done from within a cygwin bash shell (in
emacs 21.3.1) using MS VC6 compiler and nmake.

Thanks.

Re: (OT) cvs emacs build fails

[Peter Lee]

For anyone else that might be having this problem the solution was to
define menu-bar-options-menu before the loading of mule-cmds.

------------------------------------------------------------------

<snip beginning of loadup.el>

;; I copied this definition from menu-bar.el
(defvar menu-bar-options-menu (make-sparse-keymap "Options"))

;; Any Emacs Lisp source file (*.el) loaded here after can contain
;; multilingual text.
(load "international/mule-cmds")

<snip rest of loadup.el>

------------------------------------------------------------------

No idea if it's a "bad thing" to define vars multiple times in lisp.

Re: (OT) cvs emacs build fails

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:

> Not sure if this is OT for this group but since I've seen a few build
> related questions answered here, I thought I'd try my luck.

I was the one to cause the problem, and Richard fixed it.  So now
everything should be fine again.

>From time to time, the CVS version doesn't compile.  That's normal
because people make mistakes.
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