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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:31:50 -0400
> 
> One more thing: what is this test *really* trying to figure out?
> You say that the "uname" output is not very useful, but I don't
> understand why
> 
>    case "$(uname -a)" in
>      *MINGW* | *MinGW* ) ...
>    esac
> 
> wouldn't give the right answer.

How is that different from what config.guess already does?

The problem, as I see it, is that we need to know the results much
earlier than config.guess is run.  But I'm not an expert on Autotools,
so if there's a clean way of calling config.guess early, that might be
it.

Alternatively, as I wrote elsewhere, we might not try so hard to
detect MinGW up front, but just error out when we find out the host
is MinGW, but MSYSTEM is not set.  That might be a good enough
solution with a much smaller footprint.