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Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:16:18 +0200

> From: Yong LU <lyongu@ailab.pku.edu.cn>
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 06:45:12 +0800
> 
> This problem happens when building emacs 21.1.50 and leim with Cygwin.
> After Emacs binary has been built, it goes into the leim directory
> to compile lisp sources.  But since Cygwin maps all drive letters 
> to things like "/cygdrive/x", where x is the drive, Emacs fail to 
> load the libraries as the path in makefile is wrong.

Sorry, I don't get it: did you build Emacs as a Cygwin application,
not as a MinGW application?  That is, does Emacs use CYGWIN1.DLL when
it runs, rather than the stock Microsoft CRTDLL.DLL?

If you built a Cygwin app, it won't work: Emacs doesn't yet support
such a build.

If you built a MinGW application, I don't understand how does the
/cygdrive/u/ thingy gets in your way: Emacs should not see such
names.  And it looks like it indeed doesn't see them:

> $ make - --unix -C ../leim all
> [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
> Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/leim'
> "./../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file 
> --multibyte -l u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/lisp/international/titdic-cnv \
>     --eval '(batch-titdic-convert t)' \
>     -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
> Converting u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/nt/CXTERM-DIC to quail-package...
> Opening input file: no such file or directory, 
> u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/nt/CXTERM-DIC
> Signal 127
> make: *** [quail/CCDOSPY.elc] Error 255
> make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/leim'

See? the only part here that mentions /cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21
is the Cygwin port of Make.  Once Emacs is invoked, it is passed the
usual u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21 file names.  Even the error message
mentions the Windows-style file name with a drive letter.  So why did
you think that /cygdrive/u/ is the problem here?

I'd rather think that the problem is here:

> Converting u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/nt/CXTERM-DIC to quail-package...
                                            ^^^^
This is a wrong file name: it should have been this:

  u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/leim/CXTERM-DIC
                                 ^^^^^^
This seems to indicate that "./CXTERM-DIC" is somehow interpreted
relative to u:/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/nt, not to the directory
into which Make have just switches, as this line shows:

> make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/leim'

Could you please look closer and try to figure out why did Emacs use
a wrong file name?



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