From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:13:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ejo2nrf6.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <87wt1tm24o.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173327236 5343 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 04:13:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: william.xue@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 05:13:50 2007 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 1HPA0j-0000qL-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:13:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA0t-0003J6-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA0e-0003I5-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA0b-0003Hn-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA0b-0003Hk-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPA0Q-0004gP-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-4-115.inter.net.il [80.230.4.115]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CBL87885 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:13:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87wt1tm24o.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (message from Eric Hanchrow on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:47:51 -0800) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:67554 Archived-At: > Cc: "William Xue" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Eric Hanchrow > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:47:51 -0800 > > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Eli> I think that's a very bad idea: MinGW and Cygwin are deeply > Eli> incompatible. So please do NOT use the MinGW Make to build > Eli> the Cygwin port of Emacs. > > Uh oh. I suggested that only because nt/INSTALL says > > (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake > bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.) nt/INSTALL does not cover the Cygwin build, it only covers the native Windows builds. For Cygwin, users should read the main INSTALL file, because Cygwin emulates a Posix platform. IOW, the above advice in nt/INSTALL advises against using the Cygwin Make for non-Cygwin builds. > The MinGW "make" is the only Free "make" I know of that works to build > emacs on Cygwin, and it's been working without problem for me for > literally years. What's wrong with it, and what would you recommend > in its place? For Cygwin builds, the _only_ Make to use is the Cygwin Make.