Re: [Mingw-users] [PATCH] Support MSYS2

[Greg Jung]

In all three of my msys2 XXX_shell.bat shells, uname -o answers Msys.

in msys-1, uname -o answers Msys

The query that gets you to mingw32 is "uname -s"

In MSYS2:

address@hidden MSYS ~

$ uname -s

MSYS_NT-6.1

address@hidden MINGW32 ~

$ uname -s

MINGW32_NT-6.1

address@hidden MINGW64 ~

$ uname -s

MINGW64_NT-6.1

In Mingw/MSYS from mingw.org:

address@hidden ~

$ uname -s

MINGW32_NT-6.1

In Cygwin it looks like so:

address@hidden ~

$ uname -o

Cygwin

address@hidden ~

$ uname -s

CYGWIN_NT-6.1

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:

[ mingw-users: this is in reply to a suggested patch (1) ]

On 2015-07-23 19:30, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
> when using the MSYS2 shell (http://msys2.github.io/), uname -o returns Msys instead of mingw32. The latest versions of config.guess and config.sub already support that, but Libtool doesn't. Here's a patch to add that support.

This does not feel correct as a quick glance. Are you sure you
understand what you are doing?

In normal operation, I would have assumed that msys2 returns
mingw-something and that any msys mode was a special case for
building binaries with the cygwin/posix emulation layer, but
you are adding msys to a bunch of places which are mingw-only.
So, it all feels fishy.

Also, how does this affect msys1?

Cheers,
Peter

(1) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2015-07/msg00003.html

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