rem\r
rem + MS Windows 95/98/Me or NT/2000/XP\r
rem + either MSVC 2.x or later, or gcc-2.95 or later (with gmake 3.75\r
-rem or later) and the Mingw32 and W32 API headers and libraries\r
+rem or later) and the Mingw32 and W32 API headers and libraries.\r
+rem + Visual Studio 2005 is not supported at this time.\r
rem\r
rem For reference, here is a list of which builds of gmake are known to\r
rem work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence of\r
rem sh.exe.\r
rem\r
rem sh exists no sh\r
-rem cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): okay[1] fails[2]\r
+rem cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): fails[1,5] fails[2,5]\r
rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay\r
rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay\r
rem MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1: okay okay\r
-rem mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay\r
-rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: okay[1] fails[2]\r
-rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay fails[2]\r
-rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1: couldn't build make[3]\r
+rem mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay[4]\r
+rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: fails[1,5] fails[2,5]\r
+rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1: fails[5] fails[2,5]\r
+rem cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1: fails[3,5] fails[2?,5]\r
+rem cygwin compiled make 3.80: fails?[6] fails?[6]\r
+rem cygwin compiled make 3.81: fails fails?[6]\r
+rem mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1: okay okay\r
+rem mingw32 compiled make 3.80: okay okay?[6]\r
+rem mingw32 compiled make 3.81: okay okay[7]\r
rem\r
rem [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must mount\r
rem emacs source with text!=binary.\r
rem [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc.\r
-rem [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; maybe 2.95.x update to\r
-rem cygwin provides this?\r
+rem [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; cannot build with early\r
+rem versions of cygwin.\r
+rem [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash.\r
+rem [5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths.\r
+rem May work if building emacs without leim.\r
+rem [6] not recommended; please report if you try this combination.\r
+rem [7] tested only on Windows XP.\r
rem\r
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if exist config.log del config.log\r