[build failure] xemacs-21.5-b11 on Win2000+Cygwin

Sitting around waiting out the blizzard, I figured it would be a good time to see about compiling Xemacs-21.5-b11.

Starting with what should have been a simple build . . .

+ make clean
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
+ ../configure i686-pc-cygwin --compiler=gcc --without-x --extra-verbose --with-site-lisp=yes --package-path=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/ --with-pop --debug --error-checking=all
    Defining PACKAGE_PATH_USER_DEFINED
checking whether ln -s works... yes
    Defining EMACS_MAJOR_VERSION = 21
    Defining EMACS_MINOR_VERSION = 5
    Defining EMACS_BETA_VERSION = 11
    Defining XEMACS_CODENAME = "cabbage"

One small surprise is the following early error message in sysout (rather than configure.log) . . .
checking for GNU libc... no
Extracting information from the machine- and system-dependent headers...
conftest.c:44: parse error before `=' token
    Defining SYSTEM_TYPE = "cygwin_nt-5.0"
libs_machine = ''


The configure ends horribly with:

    Appending "Makefile.in" to $ac_output_files
    Appending "lib-src/Makefile.in" to $ac_output_files
    Appending "src/Makefile.in:src/Makefile.in.in:src/depend" to $ac_output_files
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile.in
creating lib-src/Makefile.in
creating src/Makefile.in
creating src/paths.h
creating lib-src/config.values
creating src/config.h
creating lwlib/config.h
lwlib/config.h is unchanged
creating ./Makefile
junk.c:19: parse error before string constant <================================
creating ./GNUmakefile
junk.c:16: parse error before string constant
creating lib-src/Makefile
junk.c:7: parse error before string constant
creating lib-src/GNUmakefile
junk.c:7: parse error before string constant
creating src/Makefile
junk.c:7: parse error before string constant
creating src/GNUmakefile
junk.c:7: parse error before string constant

And all of ./Makefile & ./GNUmakefile are empty. (0 bytes)




<system-info>
HOST=i686 MSWin2000Pro Cygwin . . .
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.20
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 73
        Shared data: 3
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix: 
        Build date: Sat Feb 8 12:10:49 EST 2003
        Shared id: cygwin1S3

bash-2.05b $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


bash-2.05b $ 
</system-info>

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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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