GNU bug report logs - #19989
25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse <at> ilyaz.org>

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:48:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:16:36 +0200

> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:59:52 -0800
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>   A) apparently, the download and build instructions changes not so
>      long ago, so what google finds are obsolete irrelevant
>      instructions.

The build instructions changed in May 2013, almost 2 years ago.

> The warning which nt/configure.bat gives is not specific enough (at
> least when shown on background of all the [wrong] info found by googling):

If no one complains about something major for the MinGW/MSYS build
when Emacs 24.5 is released, nt/configure.bat will be deleted from the
repository, so it won't be able to confuse anyone anymore.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 223 days ago.

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