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Re: Adapting changes for MSYS2?
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arnold |
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Re: Adapting changes for MSYS2? |
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Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:27:49 -0700 |
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I could see
> - from https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/How-does-MSYS2-differ-from-Cygwin
> - from analysis of a couple of gnulib test failures
> is that MSYS2, compared to Cygwin, has problems in the area of file
> permissions,
> symbolic links, and signals (at least).
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> Since anyone can compile for mingw32, mingw64, MSVC 32-bit, and MSVC 64-bit
> using Cygwin [1], I don't see the point of investing effort into making GNU
> packages build fine on MSYS2.
OTOH, if it's not a lot of work to upstream a few patches, why not?
The more environments that I can easily support out of the box, the
better for my users.
My two cents,
Arnold