GNU bug report logs - #19989
25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows

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Package: emacs;

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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Message #38 received at 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu
Cc: 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:08:00 +0200

> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:29:12 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 19989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Of course they do.  configure did not work (since the gcc found on
> > path was not MINGW one).
> 
> So that's the problem: you installed the MSYS GCC (and probably the
> whole MSYS development environment), something one shouldn't do for
> building MinGW programs.

Or maybe I again misunderstood, and the GCC found first on PATH was
the Cygwin GCC?  Then that'd be the "don't mix Cygwin with MinGW in
the same session" part of my advice again.
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