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: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:00:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83io6o46h8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560E4253.3050103@gmx.at> <83twq95q9s.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9m95mbr.fsf@gnu.org> <560EAF9B.6090008@gmx.at> <83a8s15es5.fsf@gnu.org> <560F9278.8050101@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443866468 496 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 10:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:01:08 +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 Sat Oct 03 12:00:52 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 1ZiJcW-0000NY-4c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:00:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiJcV-0004Ez-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiJcD-0004Ek-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiJcA-0004z8-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiJcA-0004xN-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVN0020025X4I00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:00:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVN0023B2GO1B60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:00:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <560F9278.8050101@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:190778 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:31:52 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: lekktu@gmail.com, 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. > > So mingw is a subdirectory of msys. Not necessarily, it could be "mounted" anywhere. See the instructions in http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started, under "After Installing You Should ...". nt/INSTALL points to those instructions. > Is that the preferred way? Here msys is a subdirectory of mingw. On my system, MSYS and MinGW are installed in sibling directories, and /mingw/bin is not mapped to anything. It's okay either way, provided that you configure the rest correctly. > >> 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. > > What do I do to ensure that "MinGW's bin directory" is "_after_ the MSYS > directories" in MSYS Bash? One way is to set up PATH in your ~/.bash_profile file.