Update as per suggestions by Shayne Steele <steele@cs.fsu.edu>.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index ae1dbf503f7..cd12f0aca1e 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
   later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw
   and W32 API support and a port of GNU make.  You can use the Cygwin
   ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the Mingw headers and libraries to
-  build.
+  build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3,
+  include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part).
 
   If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2000 or
   Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash.
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@
     MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1:          okay          okay
     mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77):      okay          okay[4]
     cygwin compiled gmake 3.77:          okay[1]       fails[2]
-    cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1:        okay          fails[2]
-    cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1:        couldn't build make[3]
+    cygwin compiled make 3.78.1:         okay          fails[2]
+    cygwin compiled make 3.79.1:         couldn't build make[3]
 
   Notes:
 
@@ -119,12 +120,15 @@
   build without sh.exe.  (Some versions of Windows shells are too dumb
   for Makefile's used by Emacs.)
 
-  If you are using a recent Cygwin build of GCC, such as Cygwin version
+  If you are using certain Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin version
   1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so:
 
     configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
       --ldflags -mwin32
 
+  However, the latest Cygwin versions, such as 1.3.3, don't need those
+  switches; you can simply use "configure --with-gcc".
+
   We will attempt to auto-detect the need for these flags in a future
   release.