Re: CVS Emacs cygwin build problem.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:47:37 -0700
> From: "Steven Wu" <address@hidden>
> 
> Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
> Signal 127
> make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp'
> ===
> 
> This only happens to cygwin, but not MinGW or Visual Studio build.  
> The problem is that the default make mode for make 3.80, which comes  
> with the std cygwin distribution, is Unix mode. Hence, the paths of  
> directories and files known to make are in Unix form.  During the  
> compilation of c code, there is no problem because cygwin gcc  
> understand cygwin path. However when bootstrapping the elisp files,  
> things are different.
> 
> In the emacs/lisp/makefile.w32-in, line 30
> 
> lisp = $(CURDIR)
> 
> here lisp is set to the current directory. For nmake, or minGW make,  
> this $(CURDIR) is window path. For cygwin, this is cygwin unix-like  
> path. Because Emacs isn't compiled with cygwin libraries, Emacs  
> doesn't understand cygwin path, and hence it cannot load the encoded-kb.

Sorry, I'm confused: are you building a Cygwin version of Emacs, or a
native Windows version?  If the former, you should configure and build
Emacs as on Unix: type "./configure" and then "make" in the top-level
directory.  Only if you are building a native Windows port of Emacs
should you chdir to the `nt' directory and use configure.bat from
there followed by a "make" command from that directory.  In the latter
case, you should not use the Cygwin make: the file nt/INSTALL clearly
indicates that doing so fails precisely due to the problem you saw:
the incompatible /cygdrive/c/foo syntax of file names.