OK, by making sure cmd.exe was first in the path and renaming sh.exe
temporarily, it dod work -- however I wonder, if sh.exe does not work,
why does the makefile try to use it?  I would have thought sh.exe
would have been better.

thanks for the hint.

on Wednesday 04/08/2009 Eli Zaretskii(eliz@gnu....) wrote
> > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:18:50 -0400
> > From: John covici <covici@ccs....>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu...., covici@ccs....
> >
> > Native windows build and Gcc 3.4.5 Mingw Vista Sepcial R3.
>
> Is this the first time you build a pretest on Vista?
>
> Also, can you remove sh.exe from your Path, then re-configure and try
> re-building with cmd.exe as the shell?  I suspect that "Invalid
> argument" may have nothing to do with Emacs.
>
>

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