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dnc@bigfoot.com writes:

> I hate to be the guy asking the "how do I compile this?" question, but
> here goes anyway...
>
> I just downloaded Oort Gnus 0.05, and I want to compile/install it for
> xemacs.   I've done what I thought would work, namely
>
> ./configure --with-xemacs
> make EMACS=xemacs
>
> The make command fails, with the output shown below.  Before I get to
> that, some version information.  I'm on Windows 2000 Professional,
> using the cygwin tools (make, bash, etc...).  Version numbers here:

[...]

> I've figured out that the gnus-load.el target is failing in
> ognus-0.05/lisp/.  It seems that the EMACS_COMP variable is not being
> defined properly.  So instead of running 	
>         $(EMACS_COMP) -f dgnushack-make-cus-load $(srcdir)
> It runs only 
>         -f dgnushack-make-cus-load $(srcdir)
>
> And thus I see the message 
>         f: not found
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?  Is it the cygwin tools?  How,
> if at all, is ognus normally built on a Windows machine?

This was reported before. The problem is the mixture of forward
slashes and backslashes.  XEmacs reports backslashes in paths, but
make doesn't handle it. Maybe make-x.bat does a better job.

ShengHuo