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: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:19:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83iow14srb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <134n7uab5v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r4au7li4.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwli7gwq.fsf@gnu.org> <837gcl7917.fsf@gnu.org> <838uwz5f7k.fsf@gnu.org> <83y54z3rk7.fsf@gnu.org> <824n7lah0k.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384003202 14072 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2013 13:20:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 13:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 09 14:20:06 2013 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 1Vf8SM-0008Qc-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:20:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vf8SL-00068t-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57496) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vf8SB-00067X-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vf8S4-0006R9-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:62479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vf8S4-0006R4-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:19:48 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVZ00I00ZLZSC00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:19:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVZ00IDAZOYJ0B0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:19:46 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <824n7lah0k.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:165091 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:36:43 +0000 > > >> This does rely on the value of MSYSTEM in the environment, which is only > >> set if the msys bash shell was invoked via "mingw/msys/1.0/msys.bat" > >> i.e. it is not set by msys bash itself. > > > > That's not true. I don't use msys.bat, either, and I do have MSYSTEM > > in the environment. My MSYS Bash window is started with "bash --login", > > if it helps. > > I did check before posting. I was using a non-login shell though, > whereas you used a login shell which will read msys /etc/profile, and > thus set MSYSTEM. Any reason not to use --login?