Re: Latest EMACS on BZR trunk does not compile with MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Vincent Belaïche
>  <address@hidden>,  Paul Eggert <address@hidden>,  Emacs
>  development discussions <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:42:24 -0400
> 
> > Another option would be, perphaps, to check the environment
> > variable $OSTYPE (instead of $MSYSTEM).  I've just done a quick
> > test on my system: if I invoke "bash.exe" (without "--login"), I
> > see that $OSTYPE holds "msys", while $MSYSTEM is undefined.  (But
> > I don't know if this is also true in other MSYS flavors).
> 
> How 'bout testing a functionality on which we rely during the build,
> rather than looking for some indirect evidence?

Chicken-and-egg problem: that test is there so that we could source
nt/mingw-cfg.site file, which does what you want.