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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Building Emacs from CVS
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Building Emacs from CVS |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:26:23 +0200 |
> From: Sean Sieger <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:32:43 -0500
>
> 5. download coreutils-5.3.0.exe from
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html install it to
> C:\GnuWin32\
>
> Why not MSYS from MinGW?
Because MSYS tools are known to break the Emacs build in some subtle
use-cases.
In general, MSYS is a package specifically tailored to support
building packages that need Autoconf and related Unix tools to be run
as part of the build. Emacs does not belong to that category: to
build Emacs on Windows, you don't need a Unixy shell and you don't run
the Unix `configure' script. Therefore, MSYS is not the right way to
go, and it's no surprise that it sometimes fail.