* ) srcdir=`(cd "$srcdir"; pwd)` ;;
esac
+#### When building with MinGW inside the MSYS tree, 'pwd' produces
+#### directories relative to the root of the MSYS tree,
+#### e.g. '/home/user/foo' instead of '/d/MSYS/home/user/foo'. When
+#### such a value of srcdir is written to the top-level Makefile, it
+#### gets propagated to src/epaths.h, and that causes temacs to fail,
+#### because, being a MinGW program that knows nothing of MSYS root
+#### substitution, it cannot find the data directory. "pwd -W"
+#### produces Windows-style 'd:/foo/bar' absolute directory names, so
+#### we use it here to countermand that lossage.
+test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && srcdir=`(cd "$srcdir"; pwd -W | sed -e 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/\1,')`
+
### Canonicalize the configuration name.
# Make sure we can run config.sub.