Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:59:10 -0500
> Cc: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
> %% Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   >> 3) Find all references in the source to __CYGWIN__ or __CYGWIN32__ and 
>   >> add or replace it with __MSYS__; if there are any.
> 
>   ez> This seems to suggest that such a change should be made in the Make
>   ez> sources.  How about sending a patch for this?
> 
> These symbols do not appear anywhere in the sources for GNU make.

There is HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL, perhaps it needs to be treated like that.

>   >> 4) You'll need to replace the delivered config.guess and config.sub 
>   >> with the ones in /usr/share/libtool; alternatively you can modify 
>   >> config.guess and config.sub in the package to add a filter for MSYS 
>   >> whereever you find one for CYGWIN.
> 
>   ez> I'd suggest to ask Paul to create an msys/ subdirectory and put there
>   ez> the modified versions of config.guess and config.sub.  Alternatively,
>   ez> if the modifications can be done by some Sed script, add just that
>   ez> script to the distribution.  The W32 build instructions should then be
>   ez> modified accordingly.
> 
> Why is it that these changes cannot be applied upstream?

That would be the best, of course; I just assumed that since they
aren't, there are some good reasons for that.  (I'm old enough to know
that I can no longer fix everything.)