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Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> There is a file INSTALL-CVS.  Did you read that?
>
> I read that and did the following:
>
> C:\emacs-cvs\emacs\nt>configure
> Checking for 'cp'...
> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>
> How to fix this?

When you read the file, did you see the following?

/----
| Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
| platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,
| etc.) before "make bootstrap" or "make"; the rest of the procedure is
| applicable to those systems as well.
\----

I think that's pretty clear.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.