Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> On January 26, 2021 7:43:23 AM GMT+02:00, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es> 
> wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> > I hope we don't do anything
>> >> > that breaks the ability to build and install Emacs into an
>> existing
>> >> > MSYS2 tree using "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make
>> >> > install", as their PKGBUILD script does.
>> >> 
>> >> +1, although I don't expect that this is checked regularly by the
>> Emacs
>> >> developers.
>> >
>> > ??? How else do you think I build my Emacs?
>> 
>> I thought you used MSYS, not MSYS2.
>
> That's right, I do use MSYS.

That's why I wrote "although I don't expect that this [building on
MSYS2] is checked regularly by the Emacs developers."

> But how is that relevant to breaking the build procedure? What am I
> missing?

Whatever works in MSYS does not necessarily works on MSYS2.