Re: emacs-w3m doesn't create Makefile (using Windows 10 64-Bit with Cygwin64)

Hi Yamaoka-san,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I haven't tried the Cygwin64's Emacs because my experience with the Cygwin32's Emacs was not as pleasant as the native windows compiled Emacs, and there were reports of the Emacs from Cygwin64 crashing quite often. But I shall try it when I have time.

I think your guess of the cause of error (PATH) can be spot on. According to your instruction, I received the following errors:

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for texi2dvi... false
checking for ptex... ptex
checking for pbibtex... pbibtex
checking for dvipdfmx... dvipdfmx
checking for texi2pdf... false
checking for egrep... egrep
checking for emacs... /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs
checking what a flavor does /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs have... Emacs 24.5
checking prefix for /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs... c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5
checking where lisp files should go... $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m/
checking where icon files should go... $(prefix)/share/emacs/24.5/etc/images/w3m
./configure: eval: line 2748: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./configure: eval: line 2748: `/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs -q -no-site-file -batch -l w3mhack.el NONE -f w3mhack-print-status 2>/dev/null | $EGREP -v '^$''
configure: error: Process couldn't proceed. See the above messages.

My Emacs is in the default installation location:

%which emacs
/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs

Thanks in advance!

Best,

John

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi John,

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:15:40 +0100, John Wong wrote:
> Hi gmane.emacs.w3m developers and users,

> First of all thanks for your contributions: I have been using emacs-w3m
> without problem under windows 32-bit and Cygwin 32-bit.

> Recently, I switched to windows 64-bit (under Windows 10) and found out
> that my Emacs doesn't load w3m despite putting the old good emacs-w3m files
> in the old path.

I'm now on 32-bit Cygwin on 32-bit Windows 10 and using Emacs 25
built on Cygwin.

> I tried to compile both the CVS version and the stable version according to
> the instructions but the ./configure file stopped before creating a
> Makefile. Here is the output:
> wong@emacs-w3m-1.4.4[580] cat ./configure.in
[...]
> wong@emacs-w3m-1.4.4[581] ./configure
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
> checking for texi2dvi... false
> checking for ptex... ptex
> checking for jbibtex... false
> checking for egrep... egrep
> checking for emacs... /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.5/bin/emacs
> checking what a flavor does /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
> 24.5/bin/emacs have...
> wong@emacs-w3m-1.4.4[582]

Well, is Emacs executable you use the Windows version? If so,
do you really want to use it rather than Cygwin's /usr/bin/emacs?

;; To let the configure script use Cygwin's Emacs, add /usr/bin
;; (or /bin) to the top of the PATH environment variable.

I've never used the Emacs executable of the Windows version, so
I tried "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/GNU Emacs 24.5/bin/emacs.exe"
that is a copy of "/usr/local/bin/emacs.exe", and got a similar
problem. I guessed the cause is space characters in the path
name of Emacs. Could you try the attached patch? This aims to
the latest emacs-w3m in CVS, so use it as follows when you try:

% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/storage/cvsroot login
CVS password: (Just hit Enter/Return key)
% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/storage/cvsroot co emacs-w3m
% cd emacs-w3m
% patch < SOMEWHERE/aclocal.patch
% autoconf
% ./configure

Regards,