Subject: bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:44:02 +0300

> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:23:28 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked]
> 
> > How (with what command line) did you invoke the configure script?
> 
> No arguments, just ./configure

That will never work.  You need to follow the instructions in
nt/INSTALL.MSYS.  The correct invocation is

    ./nt/msysconfig.sh --prefix=PREFIX ...

where "..." stands for any options or arguments you want to pass to
configure.