Re: Latest EMACS on BZR trunk does not compile with MinGW

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> > Another option would be, perphaps, to check the environment
>> > variable $OSTYPE (instead of $MSYSTEM).  I've just done a quick
>> > test on my system: if I invoke "bash.exe" (without "--login"), I
>> > see that $OSTYPE holds "msys", while $MSYSTEM is undefined.  (But
>> > I don't know if this is also true in other MSYS flavors).
>> 
>> How 'bout testing a functionality on which we rely during the build,
>> rather than looking for some indirect evidence?
>
> Chicken-and-egg problem: that test is there so that we could source
> nt/mingw-cfg.site file, which does what you want.

Why not test if the preprocessor defines __MINGW32__?