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From: djh
Subject: cygwin
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:17:29 +0900

From: Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin
To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Cc: William Xue <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

    Eli> I think that's a very bad idea: MinGW and Cygwin are deeply
    Eli> incompatible.  So please do NOT use the MinGW Make to build
    Eli> the Cygwin port of Emacs.

>Uh oh.  I suggested that only because nt/INSTALL says

>     (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake
>     bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.)

Which is probably confusing because, cygwin's make is GNU Make (currebtly ver. 
3.81).

The problems was simply how paths are handled, as I recall.  There are NT_EMACS 
binaries available from sourceforge I believe.

Darel Henman





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