Re: Boostrap error

[Jason Rumney]

Jan D. wrote:

> > Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Doing a make bootstrap I've started getting an error loading
> > > encoded-kb.  This is in a completely fresh directory tree, so I don't
> > > think that this is the same problem as the other boostrap error (where
> > > certain .elc files remain and cause problems).
> > >
> > > Does this look familiar to anyone?
> > >
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp'
> >
> >
> > This is the Cygwin make problem that is mentioned in nt/INSTALL, and
> > was discussed last week. Please try the patch Stefan posted in the
> > thread "autoload failure" (I don't seem to have the message anymore,
> > but you should be able to find it in the archive on lists.gnu.org). We
> > are still waiting for someone to report whether it works or not on
> > Cygwin.
>
>
>
> FWIW, setting buildlisppath to the real DOS path worked for me, i.e.
>
> > make buildlisppath=c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp
>
> for the case above.  I don't know if there is a cygwin command to 
> convert a cygwin path to a DOS path, but if there is, this could be 
> done in the nt/makefile.
>
>     Jan D.
We have tried that before, there are different versions of cygpath that 
are command-line compatible so it causes more problems than it solves. 
It would be far more useful to us if someone tried Stefan's patch 
instead of suggesting other workarounds.