emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw

[Dieter Deyke]

I am trying to build the CVS version of emacs Windows XP / mingw, but
the build process stops at this point without making any further
progress:

Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image-file.el
Wrote C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image-file.elc
Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image-mode.el
Wrote C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image-mode.elc
Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image.el
Wrote C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/image.elc
Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/imenu.el
Wrote C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/imenu.elc
Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/indent.el
Wrote C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/indent.elc
Compiling C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/info-look.el

Looking at the process list I see that the following command is
executing:

C:\Users\deyke\emacs-build\subdir\work\bin\emacs.exe -batch
--no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l loaddefs -f
batch-byte-compile-if-not-done
C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/info-look.el

emacs gets no CPU time at all.

If I kill emacs the build process starts compiling the next file, and
then hangs there to.

--
Dieter Deyke

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