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: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32 Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:28:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83ha0gc49b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85mwaayuod.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410269321 2405 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 13:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 15:28:34 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 1XRLTF-0007ct-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:28:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLTF-0006bL-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLSx-0006Zm-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLSp-0001fY-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:44432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLSp-0001fB-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NBM00900YJSWB00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:28:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NBM009HWYQTHV80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:28:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85mwaayuod.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:174107 Archived-At: > 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. It would have been correct if you were building an MSYS Emacs for some reason. > 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.