Re: msys2 build path problems + copy-paste english results in chinese characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:25:54 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:04:50 +0000
> >> 
> >> I copy pasted english text in newly compiled Emacs, and get back some text 
> >> in Chinese (at least I think it is)
> >
> > Copy-pasted from which application?
> Emacs!

You copied from Emacs to the same Emacs, and you get garbled text?

> I copy-pasted the raw above, I did it with the mouse though. :-)

So you marked the text with the mouse, and then did what? M-w? or
something else?  You must describe what you did exactly, because there
are too many unknown factors here.

> After I took the screenshot I redo it by marking and copying via M-w
> and C-y and it worked.

So M-w followed by C-y works.  What doesn't work?

> >> Also, as seen exec-path is wrong. I started, as recommended, via windows 
> >> means (shortcuts) instead of
> >> msys/mingw prompts.
> >
> > Wrong how?  I don't see anything about exec-path in the image you
> > posted.
> 
> Look at warning from the native-comp in window below; it can not find 
> assemblern
> (gnu as). When looking at exec-path I see no paths from mingw present 
> anywhere,
> but I did found "." in the path, which I haven't put there myself.

The "." part is added by the MSYS2 Bash.  but I still don't understand
why it gets in the way.  Does the directory where you have gas.exe
appear on the system-wide PATH?