Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:21:16 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> I had a build tree (CVS 20061025 15:00) on Linux, so I have run
> 
>    make distclean
> 
> then I have packed the tree and tranfered it on Window-Cygwin.
> 
> Here I have updated CVS and added a pointer to GCC-4.0.3 bin dir 
> 
>    export PATH=/usr/local/g95/bin:$PATH
>    gcc -v
> 
> in the build script for Emacs-CVS.
> 
> This script run
> 
>    ...
>    ../configure --prefix=...
>    make
>    cd lisp
>    make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
>    make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
>    cd ..
>    make 
>    make install
> 
> 
> This Emacs-CVS build seems to run without any crashing! 

This is good to know, but the above doesn't produce bootstrap-emacs at
any point and doesn't run it; it uses the *.elc files compiled on
GNU/Linux.  So it sounds like the crashes are unique to
bootstrap-emacs, which means users will be able to build the released
tarball, but still leaves the question of why the bootstrap failed
unanswered.

Please see if your *.elc files produced by the bootstrap are in DOS
CRLF format, which, as Jason points out, was known to cause crashes in
the past.