Re: Building Emacs on MS Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> I have looked a bit more into this. There is indeed some kind of
> change-directory problem.
> The problem shows up in Emacs 21.2 eshell under Windows. But there is
> no problem
> with Emacs shell or Emacs eshell under GNU/Linux.
> I will report this on address@hidden

I am not sure the bug is in eshell. The cd is in a Makefile, and make
certainly does not call out to eshell. It must use some other shell.
Perhaps the fact that you used eshell to run configure.bat confused
it into selecting the wrong type of shell for the make.