Re: Building cvs emacs on a dual-core machine

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

Eric Lilja skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>>> From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:04:30 +0100
>>>
>>> I cannot build emacs anymore.
>>
>> Sorry to hear that, but I cannot reproduce any of the failures on my
>> machine, it still bootstraps and builds for me, both with and without
>> "--jobs".
>>
>>> I didn't specify jobs at all. I tried both cmd.com and cygwin's
>>> bash. cmd.com yields:
>>> C:\cvsemacs\emacs\nt>mingw32-make bootstrap
>>> mkdir "oo-spd"
>>> mkdir "oo-spd/i386"
>>> echo oo-spd/i386 > stamp_BLD
>>> 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/addsection.o addsection.c
>>> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, 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/addsection.o addsection.c, ...) failed.
>>> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> I feel terribly stupid, because I cannot figure out what is the file
>> it doesn't find here.  It cannot be the oo-spd/i386 directory since it
>> was just created before the compilation command.  And it cannot be
>> addsection.c, because you are in the nt/ subdirectory, where
>> addsection.c lives.  Could you please try to find out what file is
>> missing?
>>
>>>  From bash:
>>> $ mingw32-make bootstrap
>>> [...]
>>> mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/cvsemacs/emacs/lib-src'
>>> c:/mingw32-make-3.81-1/bin/mingw32-make   XMFLAGS="" -C ../src bootstrap
>>> [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
>>> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
>>> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>>> mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `c:/cvsemacs/emacs/src'
>>> c:/mingw32-make-3.81-1/bin/mingw32-make -w \ temacs CFLAGS='-I. 
>>                                              ^^^^^^^^
>>> -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -D_X86_=
>>> 1 -c  -mno-cygwin -mtune=pentium4 -O2  -Di386 -D_CRTAPI1=_cdecl 
>>> -Demacs=1 -DWINDOWSNT -DDOS_NT -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
>>> ./nt/inc -D_UCHAR_T -DHAVE_NTGUI=1 -DUSE_CRT_DLL=1 -DPURESIZE=5000000'
>>> [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
>>> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
>>> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>>> mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory `c:/cvsemacs/emacs/src'
>>> mingw32-make[2]: *** No rule to make target ` temacs'.  Stop.
>>                                                ^^^^^^^^
>> I think I can understand this one; sounds like some bug in the MinGW
>> make and/or in its interaction with the Cygwin Bash.  Note the lone
>> backslash above and the leading blank in ` temacs'.
>>
>> I made some changes to work around this; please resync and try again.
>> (Needless to say, it still bootstraps for me, at least without --jobs.
>> Will try with --jobs shortly.)
> 
> I just performed a fresh checkout and managed to complete the entire 
> build bootstrap process without problem (this one without specifying 
> --jobs=2). The only thing different from last night was that I had 
> upgraded TCI (an alternative to rxvt) to the latest beta but that 
> shouldn't make a difference I think. I did this checkout before I saw 
> the message I'm replying to now, don't know if I got the changes or not 
> but it worked now. I will do a rebuild again and time it this time and 
> then time another rebuild this time with --jobs=2 and see if both can 
> complete successfully (and their respective times will be interesting 
> for me to compare).

Another rebuild: Without jobs, ~11 minutes
With jobs: Will not complete. :-(

Oh well, at least I can build myself a working emacs now.

> 
> - Eric

- Eric