Re: Building beta under cygwin

At 03:49 PM 2/23/01 +0000, Philip Aston wrote: >Problem 1 >********* > > $ cvs -d :pserver:xemacs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/usr/CVSroot > checkout -rr21-2-latest-beta xemacs > $ pwd > $ cd xemacs/ > $ ./configure > $ make > >craps out not being able to find the win32 api: > > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall' > gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow > -Wpointer-arith -O2 -DMINGW -I/usr/lib/../include/mingw32 > -I/usr/lib/../include/mingw -I/usr/lib/../include -mno-cygwin -I. > -I/usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall -mwindows -c -o > autoload.o /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall/autoload.c > In file included from > /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall/autoload.c:16: > /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall/win32.h:34: windef.h: > No such file or directory > /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/netinstall/win32.h:35: > basetyps.h: No such file or directory I fixed this a while ago - and it works for me with the latest cygwin snapshot. Make sure you have win32 and mingw installed. Also make sure you have rerun configure.

>et cetera. I _think_ this is a gcc bug and that -mwindows should >automatically add the w32api directory to the include path. > >make -k shows similar problems with compiling ./src > >So I say > > $ ./configure --site-includes=/usr/include/w32api > >No joy for netinstall (--site-includes doesn't make it to its >makefile, should it?), but this works for src. > > >Problem 2 >********* > >The second problem seems more subtle. When doing a build from a clean >cvs tree (as above), temacs spins when batch compiling the lisp. > >Compiling explicitly with: > > $ xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l bytecomp -f batch-byte-compile > /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2-temp/xemacs/lisp/*.el > >works. Then the make completes fine. Any hints on debugging this? I've sometimes seen this. Killing and restarting seems to cure :)