GNU bug report logs - #18302
MSYS2 build issues

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Karol Ostrovsky <karol.ostrovsky <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #73 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Karol Ostrovsky <karol.ostrovsky <at> gmail.com>, chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com,
 kbrown <at> cornell.edu, 18302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18302: MSYS2 build issues
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:46:34 -0500
close 18302 
quit

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:18:11 +0200
>> From: Karol Ostrovsky <karol.ostrovsky <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>, Chris Zheng <chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com>, 18302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> I will try to summarise the situation, and I am attaching my updated
>> solution proposal for this particular bug:
>> 
>> 1. MSYS2 uname must be handled properly, and that is fixed in the new
>> proposed patch.  I disagree with not renaming opsys from mingw32 to
>> mingw, since mingw32 string is used in other places in the same file
>> and it means something else there, which I find possibly confusing.
>> But this change is not in my new patch.
>> 
>> 2. -mtune is back to what it was with a minimal change required for
>> MSYS2+MinGW-w64 uname handling.
>> 
>> 3. Include path for xpm in MSYS2+MinGW-w64 is handled in the same way
>> as in Cygwin.  Perhaps, the same type of comment as was added for
>> Cygwin should be added for MSYS2+MinGW-w64.
>> 
>> 4. A loop is added in the recipe for emacs.exe to handle
>> bootstrap-emacs.exe busy problem.
>
> Thanks.  I installed items 1, 2, and 4, but not item 3.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing more to do here.




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