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authorJuanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>2013-06-25 17:08:47 +0200
committerJuanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>2013-06-25 17:08:47 +0200
commit341881c044bae8941443901e0884ef23ab51213d (patch)
treee38669c99e06c7755524aa580c86114ec779705c
parente82b0991003249cbd21f47ec98227d5cb8c7a81f (diff)
downloademacs-341881c044bae8941443901e0884ef23ab51213d.tar.gz
nt/configure.bat: Warn about deprecation status.
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diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index baa7003f5ae..1a0746b3181 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-06-25 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+ * configure.bat: Add warning to the help text about using the
+ MSYS/MinGW building procedure.
+
2013-06-07 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* INSTALL.MSYS: mingw-get is not a GUI program (yet).
diff --git a/nt/configure.bat b/nt/configure.bat
index f833da72269..484fb83d901 100755
--- a/nt/configure.bat
+++ b/nt/configure.bat
@@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ echo. Note that this capability of processing parameters that include the =
echo. character depends on command extensions. This batch file attempts to
echo. enable command extensions. If command extensions cannot be enabled, a
echo. warning message will be displayed.
+echo.
+echo. IMPORTANT: This method of building Emacs for MS-Windows is deprecated,
+echo. and could be removed in a future version of Emacs. The preferred way
+echo to build Emacs for MS-Windows from now on is using the MSYS environment
+echo. and MinGW development tools. Please see nt/INSTALL.MSYS for details.
goto end
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