> From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:43:00 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I don't get it, though. The purpose of Mingw was to compile > standalone binaries without requiring something like cygwin.dll as > far as I understood it.
True. > So I am surprised that it would appear that they don't use their own > runtime. I don't know this for a fact (you will have to ask MSYS people if you want a definitive answer), but I'm guessing that the problem is no one ported Bash to MinGW. Since building a typical GNU package requires to run the configure and libtool scripts, one cannot have a working build environment without Bash. But if you take Bash from Cygwin, you will need a few more programs, the ones that are common in configure scripts, from the same toolchain, since they need to behave consistently wrt symlinks, long command lines, absolute file names, etc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
