From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:37:56 +0200 Message-ID: <42938294.3060402@student.lu.se> References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <01c55f4b$Blat.v2.4$f12be9a0@zahav.net.il> <85mzql5wox.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <858y25nhez.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116963806 2886 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 19:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 21:43:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DafHr-0003Cz-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:41:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DafLa-00031H-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DafLM-0002zu-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DafLJ-0002yp-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DafLJ-0002xB-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DafEJ-00005N-5g; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.249.200.94] (83.249.200.94) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.059.6) id 42930EDE0001EEE4; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:38:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37578 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37578 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't know this for a fact (you will have to ask MSYS people if you > >want a definitive answer), but I'm guessing that the problem is no one >ported Bash to MinGW. Since building a typical GNU package requires >to run the configure and libtool scripts, one cannot have a working >build environment without Bash. But if you take Bash from Cygwin, you >will need a few more programs, the ones that are common in configure >scripts, from the same toolchain, since they need to behave >consistently wrt symlinks, long command lines, absolute file names, >etc. > > > Interestingly enough I believe I just saw on the MSYS-MINGW mailing list that there are is now a port of bash (though it does not seem to be quite ready yet, tests etc).