Re: Adapting changes for MSYS2?

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/11/19 12:51 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> But 'ar-lib' and 'compile' originate in the Automake repository and are only
> mirrored in Gnulib. (See config/srclist.txt.)

Yes, I noticed that after patching those two. I propagated the patch into 
Automake to fix that.

> 'config.rpath' is derived from libtool.m4. It does not make sense to
> add stuff to config.rpath before adding it to libtool.m4.

In that case let's revert the change to config.rpath, as you suggested, until 
the patch is done properly.

> MSYS2 is a new project, that is "based on modern Cygwin" [1] / "builds on the
> Cygwin project" [2]. The first impressions I got are:
> ...
>    * There is a GPL violation: The homepage https://github.com/msys2/msys2
>      has, for the runtime, a link to https://github.com/alexpux/cygwin
>      but this is wrong! The real sources of the runtime are likely under
>      https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin/tree/msys2-master !

This should get fixed, obviously. I don't know who's in charge of MSYS2 to fix 
it.

> * The patch to config.guess is not needed.

Yes. I didn't install that one.

> * The patch to 'ar-lib' and 'compile' are NOT needed for supporting msys2
>    with the GCC compiler. Their ONLY effect is to support compiling with the
>    MSVC compiler in an msys2 development environment.

They're still a win for that environment though, no? So I suppose we should 
leave them in Automake (and Gnulib).