Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:03:56 +0100
>>
>> Ok, here's where it errors out (same with --jobs=2 and --jobs=4):
>> gcc -I. -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -D_X86_=1 -c 
>> -mno-cygwin -mtune=pentium4 -O2  -Di386 -D_CRTAPI1
>> =_cdecl    -o oo-spd/i386/preprep.o preprep.c
>> gcc -o oo-spd/i386/preprep.exe \
>>                      -mno-cygwin  oo-spd/i386/preprep.o
>>
>> Essential Lisp files seem to be missing.  You should either
>> do `make bootstrap' or create `lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow.
>>
>> mingw32-make: *** [maybe-bootstrap-SH] Error 255
>>
>> Yes, sorry, I'm on Windows.
> 
> That's an important piece of knowledge ;-)
> 
> What version of Make do you have?  What does "mingw32-make --version"
> print?  The --jobs option started to work correctly on Windows only in
> the latest version 3.81 of GNU Make.  If you don't have that version
> of Make, --jobs will be very unreliable on Windows.

$ mingw32-make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-mingw32

> 
> Also, note that, since the jobserver feature in Make is currently not
> suppoorted on Windows, the sub-Make's are invoked with the implied
> "--jobs=1" option, in effect defeating parallelism in recusrive Make
> invocations.  You will have to tweak the recursive Make invocations in
> the Makefile's to explicitly pass the --jobs=2 option to recursive
> Make's, in order to see parallelism in subdirectories.
> 
> Also, what port of sh.exe do you have?

$ sh.exe --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.9(10)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> 
>> You mentioned build log, what else information can I provide to help 
>> track this problem down?
> 
> Instead of just "mingw32-make --jobs=4 bootstrap" run this command
> (from the CMD prompt):
> 
>    mingw32-make --jobs=4 --debug=j bootstrap 2>&1 | tee build.txt
> 
> The file build.txt will then capture all the output of the build
> session; post that file here.
> 
> (I assume that you have a port of GNU `tee'; if not, you will have to
> install it, or capture the session output in some other way.)
> 
> I see already a few problems with --jobs related to Windows, but I'd
> like to see the information requested above to make sure I don't miss
> anything.

I ran it and I'm attaching build.txt, but I ran it from TCI running bash 
instead of a regular cmd prompt, hope that I still was able to provide 
you with the information you needed.

> 
> TIA

- Eric