Simple script for building CVS version of Emacs fails

Simple script for building CVS version of Emacs fails

[William Payne]

Hello, if I'm off-topic, I apologise, and I'd like to know where I should 
ask this question. I hope I'm on-topic, because I have feeling that several 
regulars to this group are using a CVS version of Emacs and maybe could help 
me.

Consider this simple bash script which is supposed to check out the latest 
emacs sources and build them:
#!/bin/bash
cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
cd emacs/nt/
./configure.bat --with-gcc --no-cygwin --no-debug --cflags -I/usr/include/noX
make bootstrap
make install

The actual checkout works fine, but the build process quickly ends with the 
following error message:
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.

exit: Illegal number: -1
make: *** [maybe-bootstrap-SH] Error 2

What am I doing wrong here? The script is issuing a make bootstrap and not 
just a make. I was hoping time would fix this problem, but it must be local 
to cygwin or something because I've had it for weeks now. Any ideas?

/ WP 

Re: Simple script for building CVS version of Emacs fails

[Mark Plaksin]

"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:

> ./configure.bat --with-gcc --no-cygwin --no-debug --cflags -I/usr/include/noX
> make bootstrap
> make install

I use 'make maintainer-clean' before running configure.  This resolved
problems I had building various versions.  Maybe it will help you too.

Re: Simple script for building CVS version of Emacs fails

[William Payne]

"Mark Plaksin" wrote:
 "William Payne" writes:
>
>> ./configure.bat --with-gcc --no-cygwin --no-debug --cflags -I/usr/include/noX
>> make bootstrap
>> make install
>
> I use 'make maintainer-clean' before running configure.  This resolved
> problems I had building various versions.  Maybe it will help you too.
>

Thanks, but in which directory did you do that? I get:
$ make maintainer-clean
[Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
make: *** No rule to make target `maintainer-clean'.  Stop.

/ WP 

Re: Simple script for building CVS version of Emacs fails

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "William" == William Payne <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:

Wrong group.  Read INSTALL.CVS to see where to post such questions.
Not that it bothers me, but you'll get more/better answers there.


        Stefan