Re: Adapting changes for MSYS2?

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/9/19 10:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> A gawk user recently called my attention to:
>
>         https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/gawk
>
> > The patch file there is named gawk-4.2.1-msysize.patch.  The patches mainly
> > seem to add an "msys*" option in several build scripts just after the
> > "cygwin*" system identity alternatives.
>
> I have adapted the patches for gawk's test/Makefile.am and will be
> pushing shortly.
>
> Can we get the changes for compile, config.guess, config.rpath, and
> ar-lib integrated directly into GNULIB, so that I can then pull them
> from upstream?

I installed most of those changes to Gnulib. The exception is the proposed 
change to config.guess, which is upstream from Gnulib and is part of GNU config, 
so I'll CC: this message to address@hidden.

As far as I can see, the proposed config.guess change has no effect, as the 
existing config.guess treats MSYS the same on all architectures in an earlier 
branch of that big 'case' statement. config.guess has done so since this commit 
in 2014, which specifically caused config.guess to treat MSYS the same on all 
machines, not just i* machines:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=f4ebd3ed097771a729b68e688236aea665e7c1f3

so I'm puzzled as to why the config.guess change would be needed even if it were 
effective.