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#19989
25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
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Reported by: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse <at> ilyaz.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:48:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:00:09 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > • mingw shell sets path to (essentially) FOO/msys/1.0/mingw/bin (here FOO
> > is the install path), but there is no directory
> > FOO/msys/1.0/mingw
> > what is is
> > FOO/bin
> > So I needed to make a symbolic link (Windows style required) by
> > running
> > mklink /j mingw FOO
> > in FOO/msys/1.0
> [...]
> FWIW, the 2nd issue sounds to me like an installation mistake of some
> kind (did you install MinGW inside the MSYS tree, by chance?). But
> I'm not an expert; all I know is that on my system, the MSYS Bash
> window has PATH set to whatever my system-wide PATH is, with these
> directories prepended:
>
> .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:
>
> IOW, no msys/1.0/mingw/ anywhere in sight.
Btw, there's nothing magic in the PATH value: it is set in
/etc/profile (probably FOO/msys/etc/profile in your case), and you can
edit it to your heart's content.
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