Re: Building under cygwin from git rep.

[Akim Demaille]

Le 16 avr. 2013 à 22:42, Efi Fogel <address@hidden> a écrit :

> I did not run the 'git submodule...' command the first time, but I did now. I 
> still get the first error; see below. Am I suppose to run anything else 
> before I run 'bootstrap'?
> I am master.

Good for you ;)

> I was imprecise. I actually get the error above while running 'bootstrap'. So 
> first, here is the error message. (Notice the first line about some 
> unrecognized character.)
> 
> Unrecognized character \xFF in column 11 at build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk line 1.
> […]
> When I look at build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk it seems completely corrupted.

Well, that's the problem, obviously.  Maybe it's because it's a symlink
that it fails, I don't know.  If you want to build on Cygwin, maybe the
simplest is to build the tarball on Unix (make dist), and then to use
this tarball, instead of working with git.