Re: Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites

[Jason Rumney]

dhruva wrote:
> Before I start modifying the build files, I
> wanted to know if there was a reason that I had completely missed out.
> I just wanted to avoid spending time on a topic which was already
> visited by other developers.
There are a couple of paragraphs of commentary in nt/gmake.defs about 
why past maintainers chose to require cp and rm to build Emacs rather 
than use the Windows native del and copy commands.