Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin

[Jason Rumney]

lyongu@ailab.pku.edu.cn (Yong LU) writes:

> This problem happens when building emacs 21.1.50 and leim with Cygwin.
> After Emacs binary has been built, it goes into the leim directory
> to compile lisp sources.  But since Cygwin maps all drive letters 
> to things like "/cygdrive/x", where x is the drive, Emacs fail to 
> load the libraries as the path in makefile is wrong.
> 
> OTOH, I can build the leim tree if I cd into it before the make command.  
> Is this a bug in the makefile or with gnu make/cygwin environment?

The use of non-standard paths is a bug in the Cygwin library.

If you use a version of GNU make that is compiled with mingw32, it
works as expected.

-- 
Jason Rumney