Re: build failure 2 emacs-26 branch on Mingw64

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On January 1, 2018 3:41:17 PM GMT+02:00, Richard Copley <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>> > $ make --version
>> > GNU Make 4.2.1
>> > Built for x86_64-w64-mingw32
>> > Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> 
>> You have a native make on the path in your MSYS bash process.
>> "make" should be the MSYS make:
>> 
>> $ make --version
>> GNU Make 4.2.1
>> Built for x86_64-pc-msys
>> Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Right.  And I believe Sed is not an MSYS Sed, either, because that one
> should be version 4.2.2, not 4.4.
> Which could also explain the other problem Stephen reported.

Hmm. Then the instructions in nt/INSTALL.W64 are wrong; it says to run
autgen and configure from the mingw64.exe shell, which puts mingw64/bin
first in path.

sed is the msys sed; it says "x86_64-pc-msys", and it's /usr/bin/sed.

make is /mingw64/bin/make. Perhaps mingw64/bin/make is not installed by
the msys packages listed in INSTALL.W64, but by something I did later?


Reverting my change above, and running:

/usr/bin/make lisp.mk

does fix the problem.

That's pretty annoying; I don't see why backslash quoting should be
different between msys and mingw!

I'll try rebuilding using the msys shell and/or msys make from the mingw
shell, and propose a patch for INSTALL.W64

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-- Stephe