Re: NT mingw/msys build problem

[Jason Rumney]

Guy Gascoigne-Piggford wrote:

> I've been trying to track down a problem that my NT build has when 
> building with the latest mingw+msys environment.  Emacs builds and 
> runs, but certain autoloads seem to be missing, after much hunting 
> through build logs I ended out with this being the cause of the problem:
>
> Eventually make runs this:
>
> "./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte 
> -l autoload \
>    --eval '(setq find-file-hooks nil \
>        find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
>        generated-autoload-file \
>          "c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' \
>    -f batch-update-autoloads c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp calc calendar 
> emacs-lisp emulation eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net 
> obsolete play progmodes term textmodes toolbar url
>
> the output of which is:
>
> Wrote 
> c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el
> Loading vc-cvs...
> Wrote 
> c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el
> Autoloads file 
> c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp/c;C:Devmsys.0evacs-srcacslisploaddefs.el 
> does not exist

I think that looks like what I got when I tried msys several months ago. 
The workaround I used was "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or rename sh.exe from 
msys to some other name.