compiling emacs using cygwin

[David R]

Hi,
My problem is that M-x agrep
M-x fgrep and all other greps produce the message as
>  symbol's value as variable is void: grep-null-device

A google search told me that this was because emacs was badly installed.
I am using the win32 patch, the source of which seems to be included in 
the \nt directory of cvs release.

So I thought that doing a build would be as easy as building ruby.
I was very much wrong.  3 hours later.

I do cd /nt
./configure.bat
make bootstrap

it chugs away nicely for 3 minutes and then we get the error as follows

Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/vc-hooks.el (source)...

Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/ediff-hook.el (source)...

Loading c:/temp/emacs/lisp/tooltip.el (source)...

((262207 . 4526) (12896 . 2) (656 . 111) 1819491 248270 (100 . 2) (19 . 
43) (27722 . 502))

Finding pointers to doc strings...

Finding pointers to doc strings...done

Dumping under the name emacs

68559 pure bytes used

Dumping from c:/temp/emacs/src/oo-spd/i386/temacs.exe

          to c:/temp/emacs/src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe

mkdir "../bin"
mkdir: cannot create directory `../bin': File exists
make[1]: [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1 (ignored)
cp -f oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe ../bin
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src'
make   -C ../src bootstrap-clean
[Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src'
rm oo-spd/i386/alloc.o
rm oo-spd/i386/data.o
rm oo-spd/i386/intervals.o
rm oo-spd/i386/keyboard.o
rm oo-spd/i386/keymap.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/src'
make   -C ../lisp bootstrap
[Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp'
/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs /cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp; \
	for file in calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus 
international language mail mh-e net play progmodes term textmodes url 
obsolete; do \
           /cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \
        done;
Directories: . calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation erc eshell gnus 
international language mail mh-e net play progmodes term textmodes url
"./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
autoload \
		--eval '(setq find-file-hook nil find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings 
t)' \
		-f w32-batch-update-autoloads 
"/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el" . calc calendar emacs-lisp 
emulation erc eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net play 
progmodes term textmodes url
Cannot open load file: encoded-kb

make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/emacs/lisp'
make: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2