Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:20:29 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> > Some might say "it's not 'native'; it relies on the cygwin.dll".
> 
> That is not a real criticism, many Windows programs depend on their own
> shared libraries.
> 
> A real criticism is that it does not interact well with native Windows
> programs, which causes lots of ugly workarounds to be needed in shell
> scripts and makefiles.

Yes, exactly.  The /cygdrive stuff, the incompatible command-line
quoting, text/binary mounts of filesystems, reliance on Bash when
`system' is called, signals that only work between Cygwin programs,
etc. etc., -- all this makes Cygwin a perfect environment if, but only
if you confine yourself to running Cygwin programs and nothing else.