Re: Boostrap error

[Jan D.]

> Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Doing a make bootstrap I've started getting an error loading
> > encoded-kb.  This is in a completely fresh directory tree, so I don't
> > think that this is the same problem as the other boostrap error (where
> > certain .elc files remain and cause problems).
> >
> > Does this look familiar to anyone?
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp'
>
> This is the Cygwin make problem that is mentioned in nt/INSTALL, and
> was discussed last week. Please try the patch Stefan posted in the
> thread "autoload failure" (I don't seem to have the message anymore,
> but you should be able to find it in the archive on lists.gnu.org). We
> are still waiting for someone to report whether it works or not on
> Cygwin.


FWIW, setting buildlisppath to the real DOS path worked for me, i.e.

> make buildlisppath=c:/dev/emacs-src/emacs/lisp

for the case above.  I don't know if there is a cygwin command to 
convert a cygwin path to a DOS path, but if there is, this could be 
done in the nt/makefile.

        Jan D.