Re: w32 master branch: "make[2]: *** [calendar/cal-loaddefs.el] Error 3"

[Keith David Bershatsky]

Thank you, Eli, for letting me know that the w32 build succeeds on your end.

I was eventually able to build a clean w32 Emacs master branch from today 
(04/03/2019) -- without incident.

I am still struggling, however, with building a patched version from 03/28/2019 
(containing a proof concept of the multiple fake cursors feature).  There is 
only one new lisp file (crosshairs.el), which has six (6) of these:

;;;###autoload

For each loaddefs.el, I see a loop of what seems like somewhere between 50 and 
100 repetitions until the build process moves on to the next loaddefs.el file; 
and, the loops look like this:

  c:/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el and c:/Documents and 
Settings/Administrator/Desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el are the same file

  ...

  c:/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el and c:/Documents and 
Settings/Administrator/Desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el are the same file

  ...

  c:/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el and c:/Documents and 
Settings/Administrator/Desktop/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el are the same file


In the Console2 terminal using the MinGW_32 goodies, I do the following:

cd /c/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/

rm -rf emacs

git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git

cd /c/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs

git reset --hard 2da9f8bf4222fda504f43b4757e154999cdbbf2c

;;; "HEAD is now at 2da9f8b Fix display of sliced images on MS-Windows"

git apply /path/to/the/patch.diff

./autogen.sh

CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure \
--prefix=/c/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/trunk \
--enable-checking='yes,glyphs' \
--enable-check-lisp-object-type \
--without-compress-install \
--without-makeinfo \
--with-gnutls=no \
--with-mailutils \
--without-makeinfo

make

...

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> Date: [04-03-2019 12:21:38] <03 Apr 2019 22:21:38 +0300>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> To: Keith David Bershatsky <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: w32 master branch: "make[2]: *** [calendar/cal-loaddefs.el] 
> Error 3"
> 
> > Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:59:07 -0700
> > From: Keith David Bershatsky <address@hidden>
> >
> > I am able to successfully build Emacs master branch 03/28/2019 on NS and 
> > X11, however, the w32 build fails (Windows XP SP-3, using MinGW-32 and the 
> > ezwinports goodies from a couple of years ago):
> >
> > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
> > way.
> > Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> > make[2]: *** [calendar/cal-loaddefs.el] Error 3
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs/lisp'
> > make[1]: *** [../lisp/loaddefs.el] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/docume~1/admini~1/desktop/emacs/src'
> > make: *** [src] Error 2
> 
> Doesn't happen here.  Is this a fresh checkout, or a directory where
> you already built Emacs in the past?  If the latter, there might be
> stale files around which cause this, so be sure to clean up the tree.