I've been trying to compile guile trunk on Cygwin 1.7. I had to install gc-7.1 and libunistring my first.
It seems to compile okay, but "make install" fails with texinfo error. Not sure why the cross reference would
on cygwin. "texi2pdf --version" returns "texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135" which is same as on Ubuntu 10.04,
where the build completes. Maybe it's the space in the node name in the error below:
make all-am
make[4]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/jsparkes/src/scheme/guile/guile/doc/ref'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
if (/bin/sh /cygdrive/c/Users/jsparkes/src/scheme/guile/guile/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
for f in
guile.info guile.info-[0-9] guile.info-[0-9][0-9] guile.i[0-9] guile.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
done; \
else :; fi && \
cd "$am__cwd"; \
if /bin/sh /cygdrive/c/Users/jsparkes/src/scheme/guile/guile/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo -I . \
then \
rc=0; \
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; \
else \
rc=$?; \
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
$restore $backupdir/* `echo "./
guile.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
/cygdrive/c/Users/jsparkes/src/scheme/guile/guile/doc/ref//sxml-match.texi:22: Cross reference to nonexistent node `sxml simple' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
makeinfo: Removing output file `
guile.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.