Hello, I've done an out-of-tree build of the current trunk with my usual MinGW/MSYS environment. Then, from that same build directory, I've done this: $ make --version GNU Make 3.82.90 Built for i686-pc-msys [...] $ rm -fr /c/usr1 $ make install-strip GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG= prefix=/c/usr1 > /c/tmp/make-install-strip.log 2>&1 $ rm -fr /c/usr1 $ make install GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG= prefix=/c/usr1 > /c/tmp/make-install.log 2>&1 I'm attaching the two .log files obtained. As you can see, the "install-strip" target has generated some errors that are not present when making the "install" target: install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/make: install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/Entering install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/directory install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/`/home/Dani/emacs/trunk-build/doc/misc' install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/make: install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/Leaving install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/directory install-info: No such file or directory for /c/usr1/share/info/`/home/Dani/emacs/trunk-build/doc/misc' Makefile:634: recipe for target `install-info' failed make[1]: [install-info] Error 1 (ignored) Eli suggested to add a "--no-print-directory" switch to this make command (from the "install-info" recipe): info_misc=`MAKELEVEL=0 make -s -C doc/misc echo-info`; \ and it seems that works [1]. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-10-20 on LEG570 Repository revision: 118168 rgm@gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600 Configured using: `configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' -- Dani Moncayo [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00930.html