Re: Problems building CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW

[Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>]

Ivan Kanis wrote:

> Francis Litterio writes:
>
>> When I try to build CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW (following the
>> instructions in emacs/nt/INSTALL, of course), I get this error during
>> "make bootstrap":
>>
>>    Generating autoloads for language/vietnamese.el...
>>    Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 3917, 3960
>>    mingw32-make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
>>    mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/franl/cvs/emacs/lisp'
>>    mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2
>
> Funny, I saw that error today on XP and with MinGW, yesterday. I
> removed the file and it crapped much, much later on european.el.

Me too.  In my case, the make proceeds past the byte-compiler errors,
but finally dies with:

   mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lisp/language/european.elc', needed by `DOC'.  Stop.
   mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2

which is simply fallout from an earlier byte-compiler error for
european.el:

   Compiling language/european.el

   In toplevel form:
   language/european.el:237:1:Error: Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context"

I will put together the info that Eli has requested as soon as possible
and post it to this list.
--
Fran