Re: Problems building CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW

[Ivan Kanis]

Francis Litterio <address@hidden> writes:

> When I try to build CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW (following the
> instructions in emacs/nt/INSTALL, of course), I get this error during
> "make bootstrap":
>
>    Generating autoloads for language/vietnamese.el...
>    Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 3917, 3960
>    mingw32-make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
>    mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/franl/cvs/emacs/lisp'
>    mingw32-make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2
>

I finally resolved the problem on my end. I was building within emacs
shell version 22.2. After unsetting the following variables I have a
successful build:

EMACSDATA
EMACSDOC
EMACSLOADPATH
EMACSPATH

I took out emacs out of the PATH environment, but I don't think it's
necessary.

Let me know if it helps...
-- 
Ivan
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