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Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please
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> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:29:18 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: lekktu@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >The port of sh included in MSYS is the Cygwin port.  So I won't
> >recommend its use with a non-Cygwin build of Emacs.
> >  
> What problems are there using MSYS from within Emacs?

The same ones as when you use the Cygwin tools: the cygdrive nuisance,
the text vs binary files issue, etc.  MSYS is just a subset of Cygwin,
AFAIK, so it doesn't solve all these problems.