Re: Emacs 21.3 build on Windows using GNU make and cmd.exe shell fails to complete

[Jason Rumney]

address@hidden (John D. Amidon) writes:

> Building Emacs 21.3 from the CVS sources at subversions.gnu.org using GNU
> make doesn't work.  It fails in the lisp directory because of problems with
> the in various XXX-CMD targets which use the 'for' command in the
> makefile.w32-in file.  The 'cvs diff' against the corrected file is below:

I don't know what version of make you are using, but I built Emacs
with a recent mingw32 port of GNU make and cmd.exe this
morning. Please ensure that the version of make you are using is one
of those listed in nt/INSTALL as "working".