Another data point. My normal build process on windows is a cygwin/msys
hybrid. This worked for me a long time ago and I have never changed
On cygwin:
cvs update -dp
copy the maxima tree to a build location
"sh bootstrap' in the build tree
On msys, in the build tree:
./configure
make
make check
This still works. However, if run "sh bootstrap" under MSYS then I get
sed errors when I run configure, suggesting that one of the files
generated by the MSYS bootstrap process is broken. I will investigate
further.