Re: [h-e-w] (no subject)

[Robinows]

In a message dated 11/5/2002 2:39:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, address@hidden writes:

> >Cygwin make does not work for compiling Emacs, since it generates Cygwin
> >paths instead of Windows paths. Use a mingw32 build of make.
> >(http://www.mingw.org/)


 This, of course, is a bug in the emacs distribution.   Somebody should fix this.
... OK, I'll look at it.

> Cygwin does work for compiling Emacs; it just generates a build of Emacs 
> that understands Cygwin paths, can use an X server, requires the cygwin dll,
> and generally looks unixy.

  And is pretty much useless unless you happen to run X.
  A cygwin emacs with a Windows display would be a good thing.

> In fact, if you install cygwin emacs is a supported and easily installable
> package - no need to compile.

 Please, let's not confuse things.  There's no need to compile NTemacs either.