From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:43:00 +0200 Message-ID: <858y25nhez.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <01c55f4b$Blat.v2.4$f12be9a0@zahav.net.il> <85mzql5wox.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116926944 3649 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 09:29:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 11:29:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVgm-0003o3-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 11:27:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVkP-0008OS-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVXK-0007cu-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVXJ-0007bL-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVRs-0003py-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaV0I-0001MY-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 04:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaV06-0003G1-3e; Tue, 24 May 2005 04:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 796141C4D3A9; Tue, 24 May 2005 10:43:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 24 May 2005 09:03:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:37556 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37556 Juanma Barranquero writes: >> I don't have MSYS installed >> where I type this to look under the hood and tell you what's with the >> Cygwin DLL there, but I know for a fact that they forked from Cygwin. > > Well, msys/bin contains two DLLs, libW11.dll and msys-1.0.dll, and > most executables in the dir depend on msys-1.0.dll, so it certainly > seems like a Cygwin lookalike. I stand corrected. I don't get it, though. The purpose of Mingw was to compile standalone binaries without requiring something like cygwin.dll as far as I understood it. So I am surprised that it would appear that they don't use their own runtime. I really don't get it, right? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum