More problems building Emacs-trunk on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

For the sake of completeness I want to flag the following, which happens
on Cygwin.

Since these changes [1], I meet more problems in building Emacs.

The story.
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I have explained this several times on this list, so I will try to
summarize.

After the merging of the unicode branch, to build on Cygwin, we need
to increase the value of STATIC_HEAP_SIZE in src/sheap.c.

We discovered that in a full bootstrap (i.e. 'make bootstrap'), Emacs
used about 25MB of the heap in the first stage of the build, and
'only' 19MB in the final stage:

$ grep "heap usage" build-emacs-full_bootstrap.log
Static heap usage: 25478120 of 26214400 bytes
Static heap usage: 19252200 of 26214400 bytes

This mean that a full bootstrap on Cygwin requires:

#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE        (25 * 1024 * 1024)


This suggested me

1. to boostrap on GNU/Linux
2. to create a snapshot of the source (... make-dist --snapshot...)
3. to build on Cygwin using only 'make'

(say that 1.,2.,3. is a 'simulation' of the process of releasing Emacs!?!)

This requires

#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE        (19 * 1024 * 1024)

and the result is

$ grep "heap usage" build-emacs-only_make.log
Static heap usage: 19252200 of 19922944 bytes

end of the story
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What happens now?

When I adopt the strategy 1.,2.,3., not only I should increase
STATIC_HEAP_SIZE to 22MB, but

$ grep "heap usage" build-emacs-only_make.log
Static heap usage: 22201288 of 23068672 bytes
Static heap usage: 19252168 of 23068672 bytes


It seems that [1] requires two stages (which break the strategy
1.,2.,3.!) even in

./configure
make


Cheers,
   Angelo.
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[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01405.html