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Re: CVS emacs bootstrap problem: cannot open encoded-kb
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Eric Hanchrow |
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Re: CVS emacs bootstrap problem: cannot open encoded-kb |
Date: |
Wed, 17 May 2006 08:36:14 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Wu <address@hidden> writes:
Steven> I was trying to bootstrap emacs on cygwin using gcc, and
Steven> everything looked okay until make did autoloads in lisp
Steven> directory, and the error message was cannot open
Steven> encoded-kb. I'd found some suggestions like using
Steven> buildlisppath=... and it didn't work. However, it seems
Steven> like the problem has been addressed. What am I missing
Steven> here?
Steven> steve
I don't want to discourage you, but I've never been able to get
further than you have, and I've tried many times.
A rather depressing diary of my many failures can be found here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BuildingCvsWThirtyTwoCygwin
Note that if you _really_ want to build Emacs on Windows using Free
software, it can be done; you just have to throw MinGW into the mix,
along with Cygwin:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BuildingCvsWThirtyTwoMingw
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