Re: build failure 2 emacs-26 branch on Mingw64

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Copley <address@hidden> writes:

> On 1 January 2018 at 17:41, Stephen Leake
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think what's unusual about your setup is that you have the native
> GNU Make installed under the name "make.exe" on your path. By default,
> MSYS2 installs it as "mingw32-make.exe". 

Ah, you are correct. I did that on purpose, so I can just run 'make' and
C-c C-k in an Emacs *compilation* buffer can interrupt it. But I forgot
about it until now ...

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

export MAKE=/usr/bin/bash; configure

works for me.

But since I have a non-standard mingw setup, there's no need to change
INSTALL.W64; I'll just keep better notes on my own config.

Thanks.

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