Re: Some error info from configure.bat please

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>
>>The problem is, I don't think that checking tools is a good strategy,
>>on the long term. Different versions sometimes work or cease to work.
>>I was able to build the Emacs info files with Cygwin for a while, and
>>after some update or other the thing failed. Me, I've assembled a .ZIP
>>with the tools needed (except MinGW, which I install separately), and
>>I unzip it wherever I want to compile Emacs. They are completely
>>separated of other installations of Unix tools that I may have on my
>>computer, and for sure I don't intend to change anything inside it
>>unless a future Emacs requires an upgrade (as Jason said, that
>>sometimes happens with make-info).
>>  
>>
> Maybe different strategies are needed for different times. I have
> noticed the careful notes in INSTALL about certain parts of the
> tools. Perhaps that could be extended a bit. I see three different
> current tool packages on w32: GnuWin32, CygWin and MSYS+MinGW.

>From the vole itself: SFU
<URL:http:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/>.

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