Re: Patches for Mingw/MSYS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:28:27PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >a) some setup where config.guess returns *msys* not *mingw*
> 
> But here's where you lose me

Hey, I'm about as lost as you are.  IOW: I'm still trying to gather
information.

This thread[1] looks related.  If the MSYS/MinGW people don't want msys
to appear in config.{guess,sub}, I reckon it probably isn't a good idea
to put it in Libtool either.

To put it another way: somebody please ask _them_ about this issue, and
have them come to a coherent answer.  And then we'll implement that.
No need to work around one another.

*snip nice explanations*
> So for the rest of us, I'm not sure there IS a difference between MINGW 
> and MSYS -- that is, the ENVIRONMENT is the same: if you're running 
> libtool, you've got a shell and m4 and stuff, so you're REALLY running 
> under MSYS.  The question is, what is your TARGET: MSYS-dll-dependent, 
> or pure-native-windows.

ACK.  The next logical question is whether the msys* one should show up
anywhere at all, or just be hidden in their packages/patches.

> Given the purpose of MSYS, the default target is pure-native-windows 
> (what we'd usually call the "cross" target, in that the result runs on a 
> pure-native system but the compiler runs under MSYS); the "unusual" 
> target is the msys-dependent one (what we'd usually call the "native" 
> target, in that the result runs under the same environment as the compiler).

I believe this is what the bug reporter did.  A guess only, though.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7509474&forum_id=5123