Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.99

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:41:45 +0900
> From: Takashi Hiromatsu <matsuan@ca2.so-net.ne.jp>
> 
> |    cygwin compiled make 3.80:           fails?[6]     fails?[6]
> |    cygwin compiled make 3.81:           fails         fails?[6]
> |    mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1:        okay          okay
> |    mingw32 compiled make 3.80:          okay          okay[6]
> |    mingw32 compiled make 3.81:          okay          okay[7]
> |
> |  Notes:
> |
> |    [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must mount
> |        emacs source with text!=binary.
> |    [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc.
> |    [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; cannot build with early
> |        versions of cygwin.
> |    [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash.
> |    [5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths.
> |        May work if building emacs without leim.
> |    [6] not recommended; please report if you try this combination.
> Then I reported that I succeeded with "cygwin compiled make 3.80:"

Was that with or without a sh.exe on your PATH?  If you do have sh.exe
on PATH, then what kind of sh.exe is it? is it the Cygwin port of Bash
or something else?

> Thank you for your explanation. I hope that nt/INSTALL have some sentences
> like you expalined.

I will see what I can do, thanks.