Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:46:02 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> >>    local with_wide_int='no'
> >> >>
> >> >>    if test "${CARCH}" == 'x86_64'; then
> >> >>      with_wide_int='yes'
> >> >>    fi
> >> >
> >> > You shouldn't need this. --with-wide-int is effective only on 32-bit
> >> > platforms; integers are always wide on 64-bit platforms.
> >> 
> >> Right. Maybe the person who introduced that code on the PKGBUILD worried
> >> about the possibility of changing the default on x86 to wide-int. IIRC
> >> there was some discussion about that on the past.
> >
> > The discussions were about the 32-bit build.  If anything, the script
> > should use --with-wide-int in the 32-bit build, i.e. exactly the
> > opposite of what it does now.
> 
> My point is that the PKGBUILD author possibly was "protecting" the
> package against upstream changing the x86 default to --with-wide-int.

It does exactly the opposite, and to the non-x86 build, so I don't
understand how did you reach that conclusion.