Re: Building Emacs-cvs on CygwinRe

[Jason Rumney]

djh wrote:
> Well as an isolated instance and without the "$$wins" it ran fine.
> Then I added the two lines in the ../lisp/Makefile  to see just what $wins was.
>
> echo $$wins
> echo Above line was added for testing.
>   

$$wins was already being echoed in your original report, and there 
doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it:

   Directories: /tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calendar /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation /tmp/emacs/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus /tmp/emacs/lisp/./international
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./language /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mh-e
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./net /tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete /tmp/emacs/lisp/./play
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
   /tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url


> I don't know why..... Did the manual run of
> ./bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload --eval '(setq 
> generated-autoload-file "/cygdrive/c/emacs/cvs/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f 
> batch-update-autoloads
>
> "without the $wins parameter..
> ...initialize a file or something that makes subsequent runs work???
>   

It would have created an incomplete loaddefs.el file. But that should 
not make a difference to subsequent bootstraps, which will recreate the 
file from scratch.