Re: Some error info from configure.bat please

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:54:26 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Maybe different strategies are needed for different times. I have 
> noticed the careful notes in INSTALL about certain parts of the tools. 
> Perhaps that could be extended a bit. I see three different current tool 
> packages on w32: GnuWin32, CygWin and MSYS+MinGW.

The last one is not a replacement for the other two: it's just a
``solution'' to have a port of Bash and a minimal set of related
tools; AFAIK, Make and makeinfo are not part of that set.  GnuWin32
and Cygwin are much larger sets of tools.  In addition, GnuWin32
doesn't include GCC and Binutils, and MinGW has _only_ those.

So I think the right combinations are: GnuWin32+MinGW and Cygwin.  The
former can be augmented by some port of a Unix shell (I use zsh,
FWIW), while the latter comes with a shell.

> I am not sure about UnxUtilites, are they maintained?

No.

> For run time program I am thinking about using MSYS instead since 
> sometimes sh is needed.

The port of sh included in MSYS is the Cygwin port.  So I won't
recommend its use with a non-Cygwin build of Emacs.