Re: nt installation problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
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> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:00:47 -0400
> 
> ok, so I gave up on cygwin and am trying the windows installation procedure.
> 
> I get a copy of latest gno emacs from cvs (22.50.0)
> use the latest cygwin
> open a cygwin xterm, bash shell
> cd emcas/nt
> ./configure.bat
> make bootstrap.
> 
> things go well for a while, and then I get the error message below.  any 
> hints on what I might be doing wrong, or is this perhaps some bug?  

Are you using the Cygwin port of Make?  If so, don't: nt/INSTALL
clearly says that the Cygwin Make cannot be used to successfully build
the native Windows port of Emacs.

One alternative is to use the MinGW port of Make, available from the
MinGW Web site.