From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 64-bit build on Windows Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 05:38:38 +0200 Message-ID: <837f5n69xd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874m0tc0gn.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87efzxn6or.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y3y5681f.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8ak5gx4.fsf@gnu.org> <87shockp95.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485056352 29964 195.159.176.226 (22 Jan 2017 03:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 03:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 22 04:39:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zT-0005wm-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 04:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zV-0003ZT-28 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zO-0003ZL-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zL-00029V-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zK-00029R-Sd; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3518 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cV8zJ-0004w0-Nw; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:38:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <87shockp95.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?car?= Fuentes on Sat, 21 Jan 2017 23:43:50 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211514 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs developers > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 23:43:50 +0100 > > > One question for them, then. Could it be that I have mingw(32|64).exe > > instead of mingw(32|64)_shell.bat because I followed the advice at > > http://msys2.github.io/ and did a post-installation update with > > > > pacman -Sy pacman > > pacman -Syu > > pacman -Su > > > > ? > > Most likely. The method for starting the shell with the specific > settings for each mode (msys2/mingw64/mingw32) changed some months ago. > > > If so, it's this something we should recommend in nt/INSTALL.W64? > > Nowadays a simple `pacman -Suy' should do the right thing. And IMO using > the updated binary packages is a good thing. If this change in MSYS2 is only a few months old, I think we should mention both possibilities in the instructions, in case the reader has an older installation.