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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Message #50 received at 28601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support
 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:33:51 -0400

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> I don't like requesting users to update all of their software just
> because the bleeding edge has moved.  Let's not forget that sometimes
> (albeit rarely) upgrading to the latest and greatest can bring bugs.
>
> In this case, the payment for allowing older MSYS2 is very small: a
> single sentence.  I think we should have that.

I think the 'pacman -S msys2-launcher' should work for older MSYS2
without upgrading other packages, but then again, maybe not. There's
no practical way of testing older versions in the rolling release
model.
I suppose mentioning the bat file shouldn't be too much trouble (see attached).

[v2-0001-nt-INSTALL.W64-Use-mingw64.exe-instead-of-mingw64.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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