Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Making a new value for system-type is a drastic thing to do.
> It could mean many places that test system-type need to be changed.
> Is that really the best thing to do here?  How many of these tests
> want to treat cygwin differently from windows-nt, and how many of
> them want to treat it the same?

Actually, I'd expect the Cygwin build be very close to the Unix and GNU 
systems, not to windows-nt.  But there are, at least in principle, cases 
where they will need to do something Windowsish, like with 
case-sensitivity in file names.