Re: Adapting changes for MSYS2?

[arnold]

Hi Paul.

Much thanks! I have pulled in the changes to gawk and pushed to git.
I await news from the original reporter (Hi Peter!) as to whether that
does the trick on msys.

W.R.T. your question about config.guess, perhaps Alexey can answer.

Thanks!

Arnold

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 11/9/19 10:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > A gawk user recently called my attention to:
> > 
> >     https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/gawk
> > 
> >> The patch file there is named gawk-4.2.1-msysize.patch.  The patches mainly
> >> seem to add an "msys*" option in several build scripts just after the
> >> "cygwin*" system identity alternatives.
> > 
> > I have adapted the patches for gawk's test/Makefile.am and will be
> > pushing shortly.
> > 
> > Can we get the changes for compile, config.guess, config.rpath, and
> > ar-lib integrated directly into GNULIB, so that I can then pull them
> > from upstream?
>
> I installed most of those changes to Gnulib. The exception is the proposed 
> change to config.guess, which is upstream from Gnulib and is part of GNU 
> config, 
> so I'll CC: this message to address@hidden.
>
> As far as I can see, the proposed config.guess change has no effect, as the 
> existing config.guess treats MSYS the same on all architectures in an earlier 
> branch of that big 'case' statement. config.guess has done so since this 
> commit 
> in 2014, which specifically caused config.guess to treat MSYS the same on all 
> machines, not just i* machines:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=f4ebd3ed097771a729b68e688236aea665e7c1f3
>
> so I'm puzzled as to why the config.guess change would be needed even if it 
> were 
> effective.