From: Guy G. - P. <gu...@wy...> - 2004-10-27 17:14:21
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Well I tried with both the 1.0.11-2004.04.30 snapshot as well as the vanilla 1.0 version. Both of them cause an error to be logged when building bootstrap. Guy Earnie Boyd wrote: >Posted on DATE by AUTHOR Guy Gascoigne - Piggford > > >>True, but part of the problem is that if you try to build from within >>Msys, it actually looks like it's working, only to break in an obscure >>way after having got off to a good start. >> >>If it just didn't work in the first place it might have been less >>confusing. :) >> >>Guy >> >> >> > >Guy, > >I'm in favor of finding a solution. I will take a look at the emacs build >process see how the path translation can be modified. Which version of >MSYS are you using? Sorry if you've given that information before. > > > >>Fred Kunz wrote: >> >> >> >>>Without either arguing for or against a path conversion option, it might >>>be appropriate to point out that there are two easy ways to build emacs >>>on Windows without either CYGWIN or MSYS. One is to use Visual C++ >>>environment with some GNUWin32 modules and the other is to use a MinGW >>>environment with some GNUWin32 modules and configure and build from the >>>emacs\nt directory. This includes the current CVS tree with image >>>support. >>> >>> >>> > >Fred, > >Are you saying that there is a special build method for MinGW beyond >configure && make? I don't like that method as it causes someone to have >to make changes when the package structure changes. I very much like the >automated features of the auto tool set of modules. Please encourage its >use for MinGW builds as well. > >Earnie > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE >LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Mingw-msys mailing list >Min...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-msys > > > > > |