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bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems. |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:42:29 -0500 |
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> +Note also that we need to disable Imagemagick and DBUS because Emacs
>> +does not yet support them on Windows.
>
> I think the correct spelling is D-Bus, no?
Yes, you're right (ref https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/).
>> +** Check your $PATH
>> +
>> +When building Emacs, you should have /mingw64/bin in $PATH, such that
>> running
>> +
>> + which gcc
>> +
>> +gives '/mingw64/bin/gcc'.
>> +
>> +** Check your $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>> +
>> +It should start with '/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig'.
>
> You are talking to Windows users here, they might not be familiar with
> the Unix shell's $FOO syntax. So I suggest to be more explicit here,
> something like
>
> ** Check your PATH environment variable
>
> Also, there are native Windows ports of 'which', so I suggest to say
> explicitly that "which gcc" should be invoked from the MSYS Bash
> command line (and if so, why not use "type gcc" instead?). Otherwise,
> the report by 'which' might be in a very different form, because
> /mingw64 is not a real Windows file name.
>
> (Btw, on my system, "type gcc" from Bash says "/d/usr/bin/gcc", and
> there's nothing wrong with my installation. So this advice could be
> okay for the newbies, but if the value is different, it doesn't yet
> mean the installation is wrong. I'm just saying.)
But you have MSYS (1), right? The issue here, is that with MSYS2 there
are 3 possible gcc's that can be installed. The mingw64 one should be
active. If the user launched C:\msys64\msys2.exe instead of
C:\msys64\mingw64.exe, they would get "/usr/bin/gcc", which is not the
right gcc (it would result in the "Emacs does not support
'x86_64-pc-msys' systems" error mentioned in the bug title).
Obviously, the text in my patch didn't explain this clearly enough.
>> +** Check your MSYS2 fstab file
>
> I don't understand why this part is necessary. AFAIR, fstab is set up
> by the MSYS installer, and if it doesn't have the correct entries,
> nothing will really work. So I think this problem can only happen if
> someone manually tinkers with their fstab, and if so, they should know
> what they are doing. Asking people to look there runs the risk of
> them deciding that the value is somehow incorrect, and editing it to
> completely ruin their MSYS installation. FWIW, I have _never_ needed
> to look at that file, in all the years I have an actively maintained
> and used MSYS installation.
>
> So I think this is best skipped.
Maybe we should title the section "If your name is Vincent, Check your
MSYS2 fstab file" ;)
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Noam Postavsky, 2017/11/07
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/11/08
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems.,
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/11/08
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Noam Postavsky, 2017/11/08
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/11/08
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Noam Postavsky, 2017/11/16
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/11/16
- bug#28601: 26.0.50; configure: error: Emacs does not support 'x86_64-pc-msys' systems., Noam Postavsky, 2017/11/21