Re: emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw

[Dieter Deyke <Dieter_Deyke@CoCreate.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Well, how about if you describe your build environment: what kind of
> shell and Make programs do you use, which compiler, what versions of
> ported rm and mv, etc.  Could it be that your are hitting one of the
> combinations mentioned in nt/INSTALL that are known to fail?
>
> Also, did you ever build the CVS version on this machine with these
> development tools, and if so, when was the last time you succeeded?

I did build the CVS version of emacs every week for at least a year with
the same setup, and never had any problems before. The last good build
was 1/25/2008, the build last Friday was the first to fail. I think that
this was just after the Unicode merge.  My build script looks like this:

set PATH=C:\mingw\bin;C:\mingw\mingw\bin;C:\mingw\mingw32\bin;%PATH%

if not exist subdir mkdir subdir
cd subdir

if not exist emacs cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs checkout -P -kb emacs
cd emacs
cvs update -P -d -kb
cd ..

if not exist work mkdir work
syncdir emacs work >NUL 2>&1
syncdir emacs work

cd work\nt
call configure.bat --with-gcc --prefix C:/emacs
make bootstrap
make info
rmdir /q /s C:\emacs
make install
copy C:\mingw\bin\*.dll C:\emacs\bin
cd ..\..\..
python clean-emacs-directory.py
cd $HOME
emacs -Q -nw --eval "(display-about-screen)"

The tools I am using are

  c:/mingw/tools-gnuwin32:
  total used in directory 41388 available 94475288
  drwxrwxrwx   1 deyke    root             0 01-23 09:04 .
  drwxrwxrwx   1 deyke    root             0 01-24 15:49 ..
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root            71 2006-03-04  GnuWin32 Packages.URL
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       5176996 2005-12-22  coreutils-5.3.0-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        706641 2005-12-22  coreutils-5.3.0-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       4540924 2005-12-22  coreutils-5.3.0-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       9371720 2005-12-22  coreutils-5.3.0-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        509555 2005-12-22  findutils-4.2.20-2-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        706592 2005-12-22  findutils-4.2.20-2-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1062192 2005-12-22  findutils-4.2.20-2-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1701165 2005-12-22  findutils-4.2.20-2-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        286723 2007-03-09  giflib-4.1.4-1-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         35051 2007-03-09  giflib-4.1.4-1-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        319807 2007-03-09  giflib-4.1.4-1-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         12254 2007-03-09  giflib-4.1.4-1-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1303779 2007-03-09  giflib-4.1.4-1-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        189242 2005-12-21  jpeg-6b-4-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         30149 2005-12-21  jpeg-6b-4-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        223380 2005-12-21  jpeg-6b-4-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         38186 2005-12-21  jpeg-6b-4-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        910109 2005-12-21  jpeg-6b-4-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        266839 2005-12-22  libpng-1.2.8-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         39518 2005-12-22  libpng-1.2.8-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        322849 2005-12-22  libpng-1.2.8-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        347852 2005-12-22  libpng-1.2.8-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        698344 2005-12-22  libpng-1.2.8-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        939884 2005-12-22  texinfo-4.8-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        706556 2005-12-22  texinfo-4.8-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       2795628 2005-12-22  texinfo-4.8-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       2879564 2005-12-22  texinfo-4.8-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        687244 2006-04-05  tiff-3.8.2-1-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        307483 2006-04-05  tiff-3.8.2-1-dep.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1217010 2006-04-05  tiff-3.8.2-1-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         38372 2006-04-05  tiff-3.8.2-1-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       2199761 2006-04-05  tiff-3.8.2-1-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         35884 2005-12-21  xpm-3.5.1-1-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        238012 2005-12-21  xpm-3.5.1-1-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         42484 2005-12-21  xpm-3.5.1-1-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        622191 2005-12-21  xpm-3.5.1-1-src.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         99777 2005-12-21  zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         51689 2005-12-21  zlib-1.2.3-doc.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         71569 2005-12-21  zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        647392 2005-12-21  zlib-1.2.3-src.zip

and

  c:/mingw/tools-mingw:
  total used in directory 15669 available 94475288
  drwxrwxrwx   1 deyke    root             0 01-23 09:04 .
  drwxrwxrwx   1 deyke    root             0 01-24 15:49 ..
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root            61 2006-03-05  MinGW - Download.URL
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       7442656 11-15 17:48 binutils-2.17.50-20070129-1.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       3464344 2007-06-29  gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1388840 2006-03-26  gdb-5.1.1-1-mingw.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root        440158 08-10 09:12 mingw-runtime-3.13.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1585762 2006-03-26  mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root         97305 08-10 09:13 mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 deyke    root       1625611 08-10 09:11 w32api-3.10.tar.gz

I also have cugwin installed, but it should be later in the PATH, and
therefore not be used for the emacs build.

BTW, I have the same setup on 2 machines, and they both fails at the
same place.

--
Dieter Deyke

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