Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Andy Moreton]

On Fri 08 Nov 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:34:20 +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.

    AndyM