changeset 37480:e3bb46df554b

Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:33:25 +0000
parents a240b159c8df
children 7121f840504e
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Apr 25 21:30:04 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Apr 25 21:33:25 2001 +0000
@@ -1339,6 +1339,14 @@
 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
 incorrect library functions.
 
+* When compiling with DJGPP on Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
+
+If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
+Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
+program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
+config.bat.  To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
+the front of your PATH environment variable.
+
 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
 like make-docfile.