building under windows



> (2) I'm working on a theory that I once did ./bootstrap using my cygwin 
> [because I had not yet installed the needed tools (automake, ...)] under mingw.  

Barton

I was too lazy to install mingw autotools so I always:
 - ./bootstrap using cygwin
 - compile and build using mingw
I did it about 12 hours ago using CVS a few hours older without problem.

	David