Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Joe Buehler]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Actually, I'd expect the Cygwin build be very close to the Unix and GNU 
> systems, not to windows-nt.  But there are, at least in principle, cases 
> where they will need to do something Windowsish, like with 
> case-sensitivity in file names.

I just went through all uses of system-type, and that's exactly right.
The windows-nt system-type is being used to mean all sorts of things,
such as "be case-insensitive for file names" and some of them apply to
Cygwin, but many do not, because the programming API is that of UNIX.

Joe Buehler