Re: [h-e-w] Re: Building Emacs from CVS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Sieger <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:32:43 -0500
> 
>     5. download coreutils-5.3.0.exe from
>     http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html install it to
>     C:\GnuWin32\
> 
> Why not MSYS from MinGW?

Because MSYS tools are known to break the Emacs build in some subtle
use-cases.

In general, MSYS is a package specifically tailored to support
building packages that need Autoconf and related Unix tools to be run
as part of the build.  Emacs does not belong to that category: to
build Emacs on Windows, you don't need a Unixy shell and you don't run
the Unix `configure' script.  Therefore, MSYS is not the right way to
go, and it's no surprise that it sometimes fail.