From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:21:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83385mq9og.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150303163453.GA25244@math.berkeley.edu> <834mq2qana.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425403352 1807 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2015 17:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19989@debbugs.gnu.org To: nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 18:22:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YSqWM-000782-AN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:22:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqWL-0005vF-JW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqWG-0005rX-Fx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqWA-0003jz-HO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqWA-0003jr-EQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqWA-0004uc-6N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:22:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19989 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19989-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19989.142540327818826 (code B ref 19989); Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19989) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Mar 2015 17:21:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34156 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqVS-0004ta-6A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:60648) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YSqVP-0004tM-RP for 19989@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NKN00J00BR5O900@mtaout25.012.net.il> for 19989@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:15:46 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NKN00EGIBY90760@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:15:46 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <834mq2qana.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:100023 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:00:09 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: 19989@debbugs.gnu.org > > > • mingw shell sets path to (essentially) FOO/msys/1.0/mingw/bin (here FOO > > is the install path), but there is no directory > > FOO/msys/1.0/mingw > > what is is > > FOO/bin > > So I needed to make a symbolic link (Windows style required) by > > running > > mklink /j mingw FOO > > in FOO/msys/1.0 > [...] > FWIW, the 2nd issue sounds to me like an installation mistake of some > kind (did you install MinGW inside the MSYS tree, by chance?). But > I'm not an expert; all I know is that on my system, the MSYS Bash > window has PATH set to whatever my system-wide PATH is, with these > directories prepended: > > .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin: > > IOW, no msys/1.0/mingw/ anywhere in sight. Btw, there's nothing magic in the PATH value: it is set in /etc/profile (probably FOO/msys/etc/profile in your case), and you can edit it to your heart's content.