Re: [PATCH] src/makefile.w32-in

[Jason Rumney]

Bill Meier wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
> > I'm confused, what permissions are you talking about? Windows does 
> > not use POSIX permissions, all readable .exe files are considered 
> > executable.
>
> I'm not really familiar with the details of Windows file permissions
> so the easiest way for me to respond is to say that in
> my Windows environment (see below) a 'mingw32-make clean'
> followed by a 'mingw32-make' fails with a
> 'permission denied' for temacs.exe.

Since the offending command is an echo, which is a shell built-in, which 
shell are you using to build Emacs? It seems to be one that we haven't 
encountered before, so there may be other problems.