From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32 Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:03:24 -0500 Message-ID: <85ha0gwixf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <85mwaayuod.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83ha0gc49b.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410300250 23565 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 22:04:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:04:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 00:04:03 2014 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 1XRTW6-00031y-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRTW6-0006oB-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRTVo-0006o5-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRTVj-0007Qy-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.225]:9305 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRTVj-0007QE-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:51425] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 72/F3-06155-9397F045; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:03:37 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83ha0gc49b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:28:16 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.142:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=FMWVxoYs c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=9XSUBuVRJI8A:10 a=hwptsUpd5P4A:10 a=oYySZE3dXrQA:10 a=o_R75loqY_IA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=OdZaA-fh5vbDN4v2z6AA:9 a=ii61gXl28gQA:10 a=FMD1XRJ_Ct4A:10 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider X-Received-From: 107.14.73.225 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:174135 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stephen Leake >> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:54:26 -0500 >> >> I had to override the guessed build machine on the configure line: >> >> $ ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 >> >> config.guess returns x86_64-pc-msys; configure rejects this. >> >> x86_64-pc-msys is the correct host identifier > > No, it isn't: it identifies an MSYS program, not a MinGW program. Yes, and the _host_ is MSYS bash. The _build_ (ie target) is MinGW. Which is why I used --build, not --host. >> It might make sense to have configure translate x86_64-pc-msys to >> x86_64-pc-mingw32, and i686-pc-msys to i686-pc-mingw32. > > No, it doesn't: people should be able to build an MSYS Emacs, if they > so desire. Good point. -- -- Stephe