Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:07:46 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>       address@hidden
> 
> >From "http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS":
> 
>   MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and
> grep to allow
>   building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX 
> tools
>   to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the
> deficiencies of the cmd shell.
> 
> This description doesn't seems to be the same as yours:  "to allow
> building of applications and programs" not "to build MinGW packages".

Nevertheless, Juanma is right.  To be more precise, MSYS is a package
to build MinGW ports of software whose build needs to run the Posix
`configure' shell script and whose Makefiles require a Posix shell.

Emacs is not in that category, because it has a Windows configure.bat
script to configure it and Windows makefile.w32-in Makefiles that do
not require a Posix shell.