Re: CVS Emacs cygwin build problem.

[Steven Wu]

On May 19, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 07:06:39 -0700
> > From: "Steven Wu" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > Currently the configure.bat allows --with-gcc, when under cygwin, it
> > correctly uses -mno-cygwin flag. This option allows Emacs to be built
> > window native with cygwin development environment.
>
> Okay, so you are building the native Windows port.  In that case, all
> you need to do is use make.exe that is not a Cygwin port (get one from
> MinGW or build it yourself from the official FSF sources with the
> "-mno-cygwin" switch).  Possibly, also remove the Cygwin sh.exe from
> PATH (the build procedure will then use cmd.exe).  This should fix
> your problems, as nt/INSTALL indicates.
I guess the advantage of my approach is that we don't need anything  
else. Cygwin make.exe builds the Emacs fine, except for that little  
thing. A simple condition can fix all the problems related to this.

steve