Subject: Makefile:382: recipe for target 'src' failed

From: Alexander Shukaev <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 16:52:05 +0100

Hello,

The `emacs-24' branch cannot be built on Windows (at least in the MSYS2
environment), because of the following error:

Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/org/org-loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/org/org-loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/eshell/esh-groups.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/eshell/esh-groups.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/srecode/loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/srecode/loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/semantic/loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/semantic/loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/ede/loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/cedet/ede/loaddefs.el
> Saving file
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/calc/calc-loaddefs.el...
> Wrote
> c:/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/emacs/lisp/calc/calc-loaddefs.el
> (No changes need to be saved)
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/c/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/.build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lisp'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/c/Users/Haroogan/Projects/GitHub/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-emacs/src/.build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/src'
> Makefile:382: recipe for target 'src' failed
> make: *** [src] Error 2

This error has been there for several months by now. There was a discussion
on it in September [1], and it seems like nothing has changed. Please, note
that the `master' branch can be built just fine.

Regards,
Alexander

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00387.html