Re: CVS Emacs cygwin build problem.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:48:22 -0700
> From: "Steven Wu" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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.

Maybe today all you need is to change those two files.  Tomorrow, the
same problem could happen in other places as well, even if we find
some ingenious way of working around the real problems in your
suggestion, as pointed out by Jason.

The upshot of all this discussion is that there's a fundamental
incompatibility between the Cygwin Make and the native Windows build
of Emacs.  It's not good engineering to apply band-aids for such
fundamental problems; instead, one should go ahead and solve the
incompatibility itself.

In practical terms, this means either (a) use a native port of GNU
Make, e.g. one that is built with -mno-cygwin, or (b) lobby the Cygwin
developers to provide a special switch to the Cygwin Make which would
cause it to use native Windows d:/foo/bar file-name syntax.