On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> The first time you build a freshly cloned repository, this is indeed
> so.  Thereafter, you need "bootstrap".

But that's exactly the case where I get the fail: a freshly cloned repo,
and doing just "make". While a freshly cloned repo and "make bootstrap" has
moved me a bit farther.

> So I would first try removing the Git's cmd directory from your MSYS
> Bash's PATH.

I'll try that.