From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:06:52 +0300 Message-ID: References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <01c55f4b$Blat.v2.4$f12be9a0@zahav.net.il> <85mzql5wox.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <858y25nhez.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116962552 30962 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 19:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:22:32 +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 21:22:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daeww-0000OU-5Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daf0e-00053z-Fu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Daf0H-00050B-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaezV-0004lM-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaezT-0004eQ-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Daekb-00026V-BZ; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-37-2.inter.net.il [80.230.37.2]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id ELG15767 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 24 May 2005 22:06:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <858y25nhez.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 24 May 2005 10:43:00 +0200) 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:37577 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37577 > From: David Kastrup > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:43:00 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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. True. > So I am surprised that it would appear that they don't use their own > runtime. 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.