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@ 2007-03-08  7:17 djh
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From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: William Xue <william.xue@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    Eli> I think that's a very bad idea: MinGW and Cygwin are deeply
    Eli> incompatible.  So please do NOT use the MinGW Make to build
    Eli> the Cygwin port of Emacs.

>Uh oh.  I suggested that only because nt/INSTALL says

>     (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake
>     bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.)

Which is probably confusing because, cygwin's make is GNU Make (currebtly ver. 3.81).

The problems was simply how paths are handled, as I recall.  There are NT_EMACS binaries available from sourceforge I believe.

Darel Henman

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