Re: [Mingw-users] Use of Emacs with MinGW and msys?

[Lennart B. <len...@st...>]

James Steward wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 01:19 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> James Steward wrote:
>>> However....  Any commands like "make" fail.
>>>
>>> Any enlightenment?
>>
>> What goes wrong?
> 
> I select Tools->Compile, Compile command: make -k.  Then I see:
> Spawning child process: invalid argument
> 
> And no making occurs as a result.
> 
> Ah ha... I've answered my own question.  I set the shell command to
> "sh.exe" and the make command from "make -k" to "make.exe -k"
> 
> Now I get some action.
> 
> Emacs of course doesn't do the automatic name translation that the msys
> does (from make to make.exe).
> 
> Now I'm happier!



And I am a bit unhappier (perhaps). Why do you need "make.exe -k"? I do 
not seem to need that. I guess you have set shell-file-name to sh.exe?