Re: Building Emacs from a new MinGW environment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:38:29 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> >>   test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && srcdir=`(cd "$srcdir"; pwd -W | sed
> >> -e 's,^\([[A-Za-z]]\):,/\1,')`
> >>
> >> With that change, now the only problems remaining are the crashes I
> >> get much later in the bootstraping, when Emacs compiles certain Elisp
> >> files.
> >
> > Do the same crashes happen if you build Emacs outside of the MSYS
> > tree?
> 
> I've just tried it and yes, I get the same 3 crashes
>   Makefile:252: recipe for target `ffap.elc' failed
>   Makefile:252: recipe for target `gnus/deuglify.elc' failed
>   Makefile:252: recipe for target `obsolete/xesam.elc' failed

Probably some other issue, but for a good measure try building from
the source tree, i.e. in-place.

Are these crashes, or just failures to byte-compile with some error
message from the byte compiler?