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

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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.

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: 28601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:10:25 +0100

On Wed 27 Sep 2017, Glenn Morris wrote:

> 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


Newer MSYS2 installations have mingw32.exe, mingw64.exe and msys2.exe for launching a
shell for each of the build environments, which are more convenient for
creating desktop shortcuts. Either of the first two can be used to build
emacs, if the appropriate toolchain is installed.

    AndyM
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