From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.* Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:54:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <47A6F0BA.7020806@gnu.org> <47A6FBAB.4070208@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202126119 16161 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2008 11:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:55:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 04 12:55:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLzvD-000752-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:55:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLzul-0003qu-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLzuh-0003qh-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLzue-0003qT-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLzue-0003qQ-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLzue-000735-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JLzuW-0005mK-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:54:53 +0000 Original-Received: from cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se ([85.194.49.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:54:52 +0000 Original-Received: from mindcooler by cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:54:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <47A6FBAB.4070208@gnu.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88152 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Eric Lilja wrote: >> Jason Rumney wrote: >>> Eric Lilja wrote: >>>> Here's the full session log performed on fresh cvs checkout (old >>>> files removed first). Hope attaching it works (posting through >>>> gmane, it's rather big), I can host it if it doesn't work. >>> >>> mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory >>> `c:/blandat/editors/emacs/cvsemacs/emacs/admin/unidata' >>> "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch -f >>> batch-byte-compile unidata-gen.el >>> Cannot open load file: encoded-kb >>> >>> Search the archives for this message. It is a symptom of some problem >>> with your build environment, I can't remember exactly what. >> >> Good catch, however, I can't find any information that helps me solve >> the problem (I googled it). It seems to be a problem when running >> carbon emacs (I'm not) or when trying to compile native windows emacs >> with cygwin's make (I'm not, I'm using mingw-make). > Yes, it was the latter I was remembering. Cygwin make passes Cygwin > paths to Emacs, causing problems finding files. The same problem could > happen with MSYS, as that also uses munged paths to emulate a unix-like > filesystem. > Its possible that a fix for this problem was lost in the unicode merge. > Maybe the people reporting build success under Windows have a "real" mingw installation. I'm using cygwin all the way except I'm using mingw's make and passing --mno-cygwin to cygwin's gcc, I've been building this way for some years.