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: Failure to bootstrap on Windows Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:03:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8s15es5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560E4253.3050103@gmx.at> <83twq95q9s.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9m95mbr.fsf@gnu.org> <560EAF9B.6090008@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443810079 17571 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 18:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 18:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 20:21:19 2015 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 1Zi4x8-0005AW-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi4x7-0000R3-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi4gB-0001Nl-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi4g7-0002xo-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:60453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi4g7-0002vh-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVL00C00TQLBN00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:04:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVL002NGU79AT70@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:04:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <560EAF9B.6090008@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:190733 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:23:55 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> $ echo $PATH > >> .:/c/Devel/emacs/build/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/bin64/Git/cmd > ^^^^^^^^^ > What is bin:/bin:? No, it's /mingw/bin:bin:. The separator is the colon, Posix-style. > > In general, the MinGW's bin directory should be _after_ the MSYS > > directories on PATH, otherwise you risk invoking native MinGW programs > > instead of their MSYS name-sakes. > > ??????? > > In March Eli Zaretskii said: > > Do NOT add the MSYS bin directory to your Windows Path! Only the > MinGW bin directory should be on Path. That's in the opposite direction. What I said above is about the PATH seen by MSYS Bash, not the PATH seen by the rest of Windows applications.