GNU bug report logs - #28601
26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: vincent.belaiche <at> gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche)

Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 28888

Found in versions 26.0.50, 26.0.90

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #17 received at 28601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.belaiche <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28601: 26.0.50;
 configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:37:00 -0400

Vincent Belaïche wrote:

> There is no such thing as a mingw64_shell.bat script, but there is a
> msys2_shell.cmd script, which one can launch with the -mingw64 for
> MSYSTEM to be set accordingly to MSYSTEM=MINGW64.

Sounds like MinGW has changed how things work and the instructions in
nt/INSTALL.W64 need updating.

> checking the compiler's target... x86_64-pc-msys
> configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.

This is MinGW-specific code added in https://debbugs.gnu.org/19111
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 185 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.