From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Copley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14503: 24.3.50; MSYS out-of-tree build fails Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 00:48:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83hahl678c.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369871334 23691 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2013 23:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14503@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 01:48:53 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uhq6s-0000kX-TC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:48:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uhq6s-0005RT-Dz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 29 May 2013 16:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.76.87.135 with HTTP; Wed, 29 May 2013 16:48:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83hahl678c.fsf@gnu.org> 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.x 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:74650 Archived-At: On 29 May 2013 18:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:49:49 +0100 >> From: Richard Copley >> >> Building Emacs on Windows according to nt/INSTALL.MSYS, >> outside the source tree as recommended, "make -k bootstrap" >> fails while processing {build_dir}/lib/Makefile, with the errors: >> >> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/emacs/build/lib' >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `alloca.in.h', needed by `alloca.h'. >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `errno.in.h', needed by `errno.h'. >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `execinfo.in.h', needed by `execinfo.h'. >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `getopt.in.h', needed by `getopt.h'. > > Looks like "make bootstrap" is currently broken on Windows when you do > that outside of the source tree. The problem is tricky, I will fix it > when I have time. (Btw, the problem I saw does not manifest itself by > the above error messages, it fails in a different way.) > > Anyway, you don't need "make bootstrap" on the first build with the > MSYS method. In fact, you shouldn't need "make bootstrap" at all, > unless there are deep changes in Lisp that break a normal "make" > build. And, contrary to what you say, there's no recommendation to > bootstrap in INSTALL.MSYS, it says to use just "make". > > I just tried a build with "make" outside of the source tree, and I > didn't have the above problems. (There's a VPATH line in lib/Makefile > that points to the source directory and allows Make to find the > prerequisites.) Thanks. I tried that too after reading your reply and got the same errors again. Possibly there's an issue with VPATH support in the default MSYS Make. In any case, I don't get this problem with the pre-release version of Make mentioned in INSTALL.MSYS.