Re: Some comments on the MSYS-based build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:14 +0200
> 
> > I removed the "GUI" part.
> 
> IMO mingw-get-inst is far more convenient than mingw-get for easily
> installing the required MinGW pieces. It takes less than one minute
> of human work. I'll try to submit a patch to INSTALL.MSYS explaining
> where to get and how to use mingw-get-inst for building Emacs.

MinGW people say that mingw-get-inst is only for installing
mingw-get.  I don't think we should invent our own MinGW procedures,
even if they seem to work.

> >> so it seems that msys-automake is unnecesary.
> >
> > I removed that.  What about autoconf, does it get installed by other
> > packages, or does it need to be installed separately?  If the latter,
> > I think the only alternative is the one I provided on sourceforge, is
> > that right?
> 
> Package mingw-developer-toolkit includes both automake and autoconf.
> Actually, mingw-get-inst only provides three main packages: compilers
> (the C compiler comes checked by default), MSYS Base System, and MinGW
> Developer Toolkit (which implicitly requires MSYS Base System.) The user
> only needs to add a mark to MinGW Developer Toolkit and he gets
> everything for building Emacs.

OK, I'll adjust the text.