Re: Emacs 23.2.94 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:11:21 +0000
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
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> Thanks, Eli.  I am not yet sure how this works.  If I run
>   configure.bat --no-opt
> in cmd shell, it says 'cp' is not a recognized command (even though
> c:\mingw\bin is on the path).

Is there a cp.exe in c:\mingw\bin ?

If not, you will need to find some port of cp (and also rm and mv).
You can find a port of GNU Coreutils on the GnuWin32 site.

> If I run 
>   cmd /c configure.bat --no-opt
> in msys shell, then it just enters a cmd subshell without apparently
> doing anything.

I don't recommend using MSYS, it has too many tricky issues wrt
building Emacs.