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> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:28:06 -0700
> From: "Steven Wu" <wus@qwest.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> When using the --win32 flag, cygwin make uses cmd as makeshell, and  
> that causes other problems.

What problems? please post the relevant parts of a build session.  The
Windows makefiles are in general supposed to work with cmd as well as
with a Unixy shell.

> I am not sure if there is a way without changes in the
> makefile.w32.in, the build problems will be solved using cygwin
> utilities to build window native Emacs.

I'm not sure either (nt/INSTALL warns against using them for a
reason), but without seeing the actual problems I cannot really tell.