Re: On windows XP Is it meant to be run in DOS command window

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:49:03 -0400
> From: "Andrew S Katz (tb)" <address@hidden>
> 
> When I was building pixman, the make file had @mkdir -p releases, and it 
> was using the DOS mkdir, which created two directories, one named -p. 

You need to install a port of GNU mkdir.  It is part of GNU Coreutils
package.  It understands the -p switch.

> And the make file for cairo had a @list command (which I assume is like 
> DOS's dir) which does not exist in DOS.

No idea about this one, but it sounds like the Makefile is not for
Windows.