From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:21:56 +0000 Message-ID: <82ob5s7y17.fsf@gmail.com> References: <134n7uab5v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r4au7li4.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwli7gwq.fsf@gnu.org> <837gcl7917.fsf@gnu.org> <838uwz5f7k.fsf@gnu.org> <83y54z3rk7.fsf@gnu.org> <824n7lah0k.fsf@gmail.com> <83iow14srb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384118556 19529 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2013 21:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:22:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 10 22:22:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSo-0000bi-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:22:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSn-0004oJ-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSe-0004nx-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSW-0006dV-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:22:24 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSW-0006dR-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:22:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VfcSU-00006h-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:22:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:22:14 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:22:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5IU/0wLcOYHkDU4qbC3Y2PNerQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165126 Archived-At: On Sat 09 Nov 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Andy Moreton >> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:36:43 +0000 >> >> >> This does rely on the value of MSYSTEM in the environment, which is only >> >> set if the msys bash shell was invoked via "mingw/msys/1.0/msys.bat" >> >> i.e. it is not set by msys bash itself. >> > >> > That's not true. I don't use msys.bat, either, and I do have MSYSTEM >> > in the environment. My MSYS Bash window is started with "bash --login", >> > if it helps. >> >> I did check before posting. I was using a non-login shell though, >> whereas you used a login shell which will read msys /etc/profile, and >> thus set MSYSTEM. > > Any reason not to use --login? I didn't know it was needed, and I haven't seen it mentioned in the build instructions. I use cygwin tools for everything else, so my build script runs there and invokes non-interactive msys shells with a minimal environment. AndyM