Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

I often try to build emacs-cvs in this way:


>From Cygwin bash shell
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cd /tmp
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co -P
emacs

cd emacs

mkdir -p .build .inst

cd .build

../configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-22.0.50
make bootstrap
make install prefix=/tmp/emacs/.inst/usr/local/emacs-22.0.50

cd /tmp/emacs/.inst
find usr/local/emacs-22.0.50 \! -type d | tar cjfT \
tmp/emacs-22.0.50-cvs.tar.bz2 -

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The last time that this methods has worked is with the CVS source of Emacs
downloaded Sep 04 2006 (and CVS Aug 15, 2006).

Now every time that I build, the build fails:
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....

Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under the name emacs
Static heap usage: 10779888 of 12582912 bytes
66931 pure bytes used
mv -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/src'
(cd lisp; make -w bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe)
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/lisp'
wd=/tmp/emacs/lisp; subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in
$subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/*
| */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins $wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
        for file in $wins; do \
           /tmp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \
        done;
wd=/tmp/emacs/lisp; subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in
$subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/*
| */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins $wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
        echo Directories: $wins; \
        ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l
autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f batch-update-autoloads $wins
Directories: /tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./calendar /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation /tmp/emacs/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus /tmp/emacs/lisp/./international
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./language /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mh-e
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./net /tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete /tmp/emacs/lisp/./play
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url
Fatal error (6)/bin/sh: line 2:  3596 Aborted                 (core
dumped) ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l
autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f batch-update-autoloads $wins
make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 134
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/lisp'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 
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Any idea on what happened?


I have all Cygwin installed and updated on XP SP2. The same Cygwin DLL
1.5.21-2 was used at Sep 04 and Aug 15, 2006, nothing has basically
changed since then in Cygwin.

I have tried also with the exp. bash-3.1-8 and make.exe described in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00131.html but always with the same
results.



I have tried to use GDB (I am not an expert of GDB):
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$ gdb --args ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte
-l autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f
 batch-update-autoloads /tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc
/tmp/emacs/lis
p/./calendar /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation
/tmp/emac
s/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell /tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./
international /tmp/emacs/lisp/./language /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail
/tmp/emacs/lisp
/./mh-e /tmp/emacs/lisp/./net /tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./play
 /tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes
 /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url
GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...(no debugging symbols found)

(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/emacs/src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file
--multibyte -l autoload --eval \(setq\ generated-autoload-file\
\"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el\"\) -f batch-update-autoloads
/tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./calendar /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation /tmp/emacs/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell 
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./international /tmp/emacs/lisp/./language
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail /tmp
/emacs/lisp/./mh-e /tmp/emacs/lisp/./net /tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./play /tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url

[3]+  Stopped                 gdb --args ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch
--no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f batch-update-autoloads
/tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calendar 
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation /tmp/emacs/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus /tmp/emacs/lisp/./international 
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./language
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mh-e /tmp/emacs/lisp/./net
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete /
tmp/emacs/lisp/./play /tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url

$
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and ps shows

S    4016    2308    4016        628  con 1003 01:37:14 /usr/bin/gdb


Any suggestion will be very appreciated.


Cheers,

   Angelo.