Re: 10-06 cvs nt emacs not building

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:38:45 -0400
> From: "Jeff Donner" <jeffrey.donner@gmail.com>
> 
> make  -C ../lisp bootstrap
> [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp'
> /cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs /cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp; \
>         for file in calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus
> international langu
> age mail mh-e net obsolete play progmodes term textmodes url; do \
>            /cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \
>         done;
> Directories: . calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus
> international language m
> ail mh-e net obsolete play progmodes term textmodes url
> "./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte
> -l autoload \
>                 --eval '(setq find-file-hook nil
> find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t)'
>  \
>                 -f w32-batch-update-autoloads
> "/cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el" . calc
> calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus international language
> mail mh-e net obsolet
> e play progmodes term textmodes url
> Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
> make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/emacs/lisp'
> make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2

Thank you for your report.

This is happening because you are using a Cygwin port of Make, for
which the file nt/INSTALL has to say this:

          Note that any version of Make that is compiled with Cygwin
    will only work with Cygwin tools, due to the use of cygwin style
    paths.  This means Cygwin Make is unsuitable for building parts of
    Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and "make bootstrap",
    for example).

In other words, the Cygwin ports of Make are unsuitable for
bootstrapping the native Windows version of Emacs.