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I assume you are running Cygwin under windows?

May I ask why you don't want to use the windows port? I've been
happily working with both for many years now.

- Chris

"Paminu" <asdad@asd.com> writes:

> I just downloaded emacs 21.4a from:
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
>
> I unzipped it to my home dir in c:\cygwin and opened a shell and entered the 
> dir and typed ./configure. But then I get this error:
>
> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to 'i686-pc-cygwin' systems.
>
> Is there no way to install emacs under cygwin?
>
> I would prefer to build a native linux version under Cygwin instead of 
> installing the windows version. 
>
>

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