From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:57:10 +0200 Message-ID: <630E9293-1A2D-43DE-80B0-CF9CE3F97EE8@gnu.org> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg6v76fd.fsf_-_@russet.org.uk> <83czxy7530.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh12grzh.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83wnw659kw.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8higedm.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83sg6t5t86.fsf@gnu.org> <87bldh7xue.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83bldg6h0o.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6sygf0s.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83lfch2gd4.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8hcd8dg.fsf@telefonica.net> <83pn1s1ily.fsf@gnu.org> <87eei8ckxw.fsf@telefonica.net> <09EFC345-E4CE-4073-9E12-D6BA217B3B1A@gnu.org> <877do0cfn7.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6108"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 10:58:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4L7D-0001U8-2C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:58:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4L7C-00010h-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4L68-0000WN-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4L67-0005ty-Oj; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:57:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:4df7:1:dcaf::1] (port=46088) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4L62-0001M8-MI; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:57:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877do0cfn7.fsf@telefonica.net> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263450 Archived-At: On January 26, 2021 9:37:48 AM GMT+02:00, "=C3=93scar Fuentes" wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > That's right, I do use MSYS=2E >=20 > That's why I wrote "although I don't expect that this [building on > MSYS2] is checked regularly by the Emacs developers=2E" But everybody else who builds on Windows here uses MSYS2, so I still don't= understand the problem you had in mind=2E > Whatever works in MSYS does not necessarily works on MSYS2=2E Do you mean MSYS2 or do you mean MinGW64? The former is supposed to work = like MSYS, for the latter I always check in their sources to make sure noth= ing would break=2E And again, others build with those tools and report (ra= re) problems when they happen=2E And if people stop using our build proced= ure with MinGW64, there will be no reason to worry about it not working, ri= ght?