Re: Failure building Emacs master on MSYS2 [MSYS2 PKG]

[Bruno Haible]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> To simplify, the following sequence (to be run in echo $MSYSTEM == MSYS, 
> MSYS2 shell (and TESTED!)) reproduces the issue :
> 
> wget 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/snapshot/emacs-71ee484cac3e0e5b68f006b4cca81c13ca6ce11e.tar.gz
>  
>       # the source with new Gnulib, April 19
> 
> aunpack emacs-71ee484cac3e0e5b68f006b4cca81c13ca6ce11e.tar.gz
> 
> cd emacs-71ee484cac3e0e5b68f006b4cca81c13ca6ce11e
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --build=x86_64-pc-cygwin
> make

Good. These are the complete instructions that I asked for.

> Notice that
> 
> ./configure --build=x86_64-pc-cygwin
> 
> prints
> 
> configure: loading site script /etc/config.site
> checking for xcrun... no
> checking for GNU Make... make
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin

Yup, that confirms my suspicion that the guessed "host system type"
is not the correct one.

Now, how about doing the same thing, in a different directory, with a
corrected configure command?

./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32

Bruno