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Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32 |
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Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:03:24 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:54:26 -0500
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>> I had to override the guessed build machine on the configure line:
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>> $ ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32
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>> config.guess returns x86_64-pc-msys; configure rejects this.
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>> x86_64-pc-msys is the correct host identifier
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> No, it isn't: it identifies an MSYS program, not a MinGW program.
Yes, and the _host_ is MSYS bash.
The _build_ (ie target) is MinGW. Which is why I used --build, not --host.
>> It might make sense to have configure translate x86_64-pc-msys to
>> x86_64-pc-mingw32, and i686-pc-msys to i686-pc-mingw32.
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> No, it doesn't: people should be able to build an MSYS Emacs, if they
> so desire.
Good point.
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-- Stephe