Re: Path Problem When Emacs21 Built with Cygwin

[Jason Rumney]

lyongu@ailab.pku.edu.cn (Yong LU) writes:

> I should have made it clearer.  I have fixed the path name by hand
> and what you see here is the result after the fix.  The original 
> command issued by make is something like this:
> "./../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file 
> --multibyte 
>     -l /cygdrive/u/lyongu/emacs21/emacs-21.1.50/lisp/international/titdic-cnv 
> \
>     --eval '(batch-titdic-convert t)' \
>     -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC

Then the problem is with the port of make. You need to use a version
of make that does not expect all programs it runs to understand the
unnatural path names that Cygwin uses. The file nt/INSTALL lists some
specific versions of make and shell combinations that work for
building Emacs.


-- 
Jason Rumney