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Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary)
From: |
Eric Hanchrow |
Subject: |
Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary) |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:26:19 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
Eli> No, that's the wrong file: the problem is in the Cygwin
Eli> build, which doesn't use any of the stuff in nt/.
You're right.
Eli> The right place is etc/PROBLEMS.
This, however, I have doubts about: 3.4 appears to be what Cygwin
installs by default, so presumably this problem will hit most Cygwin
users. I think if the note were in INSTALL, people would be more
likely to see it.
Regardless, I think the INSTALL file could be improved a smidgen, with
this change:
--- INSTALL 26 Jul 2006 19:19:06 -0700 1.115
+++ INSTALL 30 Oct 2006 13:25:59 -0800
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
-(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X,
+(This is for a Unix or Unix-like system, including Cygwin. For MS-DOS and
Windows 3.X,
see below; search for MSDOG. For Windows 9X, Windows ME, Windows NT,
and Windows 2000, see the file nt/INSTALL. For the Mac, see the file
mac/INSTALL.)
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