Re: Missing snprintf in ucrt mingw + vc-refresh in find-file hook?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: angelo.g0@libero.it,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:05:00 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
> >> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:00:16 +0100
> >> 
> >> More than the patch, I also had to copy over cp.exe from msys/bin to ucrt64/bin,
> >> because the cp.exe included in ucrt runtime failed in autogen or configure; I
> >> don't remember, with message that --force flag is not implemented yet, when some
> >> script was installing git hooks.
> >
> > This seems to indicate that your system is misconfigured: when you run
> 
> If they say that cp.exe does not support --force flag, it means it is for some
> reason incomplete.

I think there's a misunderstanding: you are supposed to use the MSYS
cp.exe (and grep.exe and gawk.exe and find.exe and some other
commands) when running the Emacs build process, not the cp.exe
included with the ucrt runtime.  But the way to make sure you run the
MSYS executables is to arrange your Emacs-building sessions in a way
that MSYS programs are on PATH ahead of ucrt and other MinGW programs,
not by copying MSYS executables into directories where you keep native
Windows executables.

> Option was to download EZports :)

There's cp.exe in ezwinports.  When I need a native Windows cp.exe, I
use the one from the old GnuWin32 port.  But when I build Emacs, the
build runs cp.exe from MSYS, not the native executable.

> > MSYS Bash to build Emacs, the MSYS's bin directory should be on PATH
> > _ahead_ of the MinGW bin directory, because Bash wants to run MSYS
> > ports, not MinGW (a.k.a. "native Windows") ports.
> 
> Isn't that what their "shell launcher" does for me; sets the correct path(s) for
> all the forest of stuff they have? This is the path the tool itself sets up;
> nothing is modified by me; this is what echo $PATH shows:
> 
> /ucrt64/bin:/ucrt64/bin/site_perl/5.32.1:/ucrt64/bin/vendor_perl:/ucrt64/bin/core_perl:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/

I wonder what are those ucrt* directories doing there, and what kind
of executables they hold.  If that's the MSYS stuff, then maybe you
should take this up with the MSYS2 developers.

> you prefer to keep Emacs as unsuported under ucrt runtime.

I don't mind supporting UCRT, but only if someone volunteers to be the
POC and RI for solving any related problems (the one with close_stream
sounds like a real bug that the patch just sweeps under the carpet --
not a solution I'd like to have in Emacs).  I myself don't know enough
about UCRT, don't have the toolchain to build a UCRT Emacs, and
therefore cannot do that job (even if I forget my other duties here).