Re: Build failure of master [MSYS2/Windows]

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 06 Aug 2018, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> As always I tried my monthly build but it fails. The simplest way to 
> reproduce, from a MSYS2/MINGW64 shell
>
> C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>  ../lib/libgnu.a(regex.o): in function `init_dfa':
> C:\msys64\tmp\emacs-master\lib/regcomp.c:889: undefined reference to 
> `nl_langinfo'

Eli has already pushed a fix for this on the master branch - try to
build after pulling again.

> If I try with a parallel build ( make -j2), I see also _a lot a lot_ of this 
> messages
>
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
> 5.32), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in 
> m/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({ <-- HERE })?\s*/ at 
> /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm line 5709.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
> 5.32), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in 
> m/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({ <-- HERE 
> })?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?/ at /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm 
> line 5714.

This is a bug in the TexInfo perl code. A new release of texinfo will
hopefully be forthcoming to fix it.

    AndyM