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Re: Building Emacs trunk on Windows 7, using MinGW + MSYS


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Building Emacs trunk on Windows 7, using MinGW + MSYS
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:19:51 +0300

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:53:55 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Your bootstrapping stops here:
> 
>   cmd /c "fc /b gl-tmp globals.h >nul 2>&1 || cp -f gl-tmp globals.h"
>   Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>   Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> which seems to indicate that instead of running the fc.exe tool with
> /c, it is entering a sub-shell.

Except that the MSYS Bash thinks "/c" is a POSIX-ized file name,
converts it to "C:/", and the rest is history.  This is exactly the
problem with MSYS shell mentioned in nt/INSTALL.



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