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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2013-05-16 14:23:39 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2013-05-16 14:23:39 +0300
commitf1e496a5c86d88c2d6f92c5083b1a9ee11f90109 (patch)
treeedf59cd86440f73719ad1445c6b90f71faf74328
parent629ecae3699ec09389e3a095cfa058119e76aaed (diff)
downloademacs-f1e496a5c86d88c2d6f92c5083b1a9ee11f90109.tar.gz
Announce the MSYS build in etc/NEWS.
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@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ build time, like libacl on GNU/Linux. To prevent this, use the
configure option `--disable-acl'.
** The configure option --with-crt-dir has been removed.
-It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked specially.
+It is no longer needed, as the crt*.o files are no longer linked
+specially.
+
+** Emacs for MS-Windows can now be built by running the configure script
+using the MSYS environment and MinGW development tools.
+This is from now on the preferred method of building Emacs on
+MS-Windows. The Windows-specific configure.bat and makefile.w32-in
+files are deprecated. See the file nt/INSTALL.MSYS for detailed
+instructions.
* Startup Changes in Emacs 24.4