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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, emacs-devel
>       <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:17:38 +0200
> 
> Please not that I have also a ~/.bash_profile file. It seems that neither it, 
> nor /etc/profile are loaded by rxvt or sh on my machine.

How do you invoke the MSYS Bash?  If you use a desktop shortcut to
start a Bash window, then what do you have in the "Target" field of
that shortcut's Properties/Shortcut tab?

> Also in the /etc/profile, the relevant code is 
> 
> if [ -z "$MSYSTEM" ]; then
>   MSYSTEM=MINGW32
> fi
> 
> 
> shouldn't it be with export, ie 
> 
> if [ -z "$MSYSTEM" ]; then
>   export MSYSTEM=MINGW32
> fi
> 
> Or maybe somewhere MSYSTEM variable is already tagged as exported.

It is, right at the end of etc/profile:

  export HOME LOGNAME MSYSTEM HISTFILE