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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dieter Deyke <deyke@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:47:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uve4wpp9o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8x1spyi4.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Dieter Deyke on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:28:03 -0700)

> From: Dieter Deyke <deyke@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:28:03 -0700
> Posted-To: gmane.emacs.devel
> 
> >> Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
> >> make[2]: *** [unidata-gen.elc] Error -1
> >
> > Please try again, but with a freshly checked-out CVS tree.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I did, and this time the bootstrap process completed with no obvious
> errors.

Thanks for testing this.

> I had some problems though to run the newly built emacs,
> because it would pick up cygwin's version of libXpm.dll whenever cygwin
> was in the PATH, and that made emacs hang.

Yes, that's a known problem.  Mixing Cygwin and MinGW DLLs is
considered harmful.

> Also, I had to install sed for the bootstrap to work. The need for sed
> is not mentioned in the readme files I found.

We intend to remove the need for Sed in the near future, so we hope we
will never need to mention it.




      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-10 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 17:01 emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw Dieter Deyke
2008-02-05 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-05 21:21   ` Dieter Deyke
2008-02-06  4:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-06 16:15       ` Dieter Deyke
2008-02-06 19:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-06 23:47           ` Dieter Deyke
2008-02-07  4:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-08 17:52               ` Dieter Deyke
2008-02-09  8:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-09  9:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-10 16:28                   ` Dieter Deyke
2008-02-10 19:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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