Re: Emacs 21.3.50 on cygwin bootstrap failed.

[Jason Rumney]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:

>    "Steven Wu" <address@hidden> writes:
>    > I took the CVS src of Emacs 21.3.50 to cygwin and did make
>    > bootstrap.
> ...
>
>    "Harald Maier" <address@hidden> responds:
>    I assume you need the mingw-make 3.79.1.
>
> I'd like to understand this better -- Harald says that one needs the
> MinGW version of `make' to build Emacs under Cygwin.  But I am not
> sure that's completely correct.
>  
No it is not correct. Cygwin Emacs *must* be built with Cygwin make, for 
the same reason as the native w32 Emacs must not be built with Cygwin 
make (the paths that make produces are incompatible between native 
Windows applications and Cygwin).

> * the Emacs source tree is capable of building two *different* flavors
>  of Emacs -- 1) the so-called "Win32" version

If you want to "so-call" the w32 version something, you might like to 
carefully consider whether you call it a "win".