GNU bug report logs - #58318
28.2; Emacs installed from package won't work with MinGW

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bartosz Bubak <bartosz.bubak <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 20:34:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

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Message #53 received at 58318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: corwin <at> bru.st, 58318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bartosz.bubak <at> gmail.com, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#58318: 28.2; Emacs installed from package won't work with
 MinGW
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:44:29 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>,  corwin <at> bru.st,  bartosz.bubak <at> gmail.com,
>   58318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:02:03 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > How is this relevant only to Windows?
> 
> It's relevant to our binary Windows distribution.
> 
> GNU/Linux distributions will make gcc (and the rest) a prerequisite to
> installing the emacs-nativecomp package (or whatever they'll be calling
> it), so it's not an issue there.

I don't think I agree.  Problems with incompatible libgccjit can
happen on other systems as well, so the solution should not be limited
to Windows.
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