Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:36:43 +0000
> 
> >> This does rely on the value of MSYSTEM in the environment, which is only
> >> set if the msys bash shell was invoked via "mingw/msys/1.0/msys.bat"
> >> i.e. it is not set by msys bash itself.
> >
> > That's not true.  I don't use msys.bat, either, and I do have MSYSTEM
> > in the environment.  My MSYS Bash window is started with "bash --login",
> > if it helps.
> 
> I did check before posting. I was using a non-login shell though,
> whereas you used a login shell which will read msys /etc/profile, and
> thus set MSYSTEM.

Any reason not to use --login?