Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

  >> 3) Find all references in the source to __CYGWIN__ or __CYGWIN32__ and 
  >> add or replace it with __MSYS__; if there are any.

  ez> This seems to suggest that such a change should be made in the Make
  ez> sources.  How about sending a patch for this?

These symbols do not appear anywhere in the sources for GNU make.

  >> 4) You'll need to replace the delivered config.guess and config.sub 
  >> with the ones in /usr/share/libtool; alternatively you can modify 
  >> config.guess and config.sub in the package to add a filter for MSYS 
  >> whereever you find one for CYGWIN.

  ez> I'd suggest to ask Paul to create an msys/ subdirectory and put there
  ez> the modified versions of config.guess and config.sub.  Alternatively,
  ez> if the modifications can be done by some Sed script, add just that
  ez> script to the distribution.  The W32 build instructions should then be
  ez> modified accordingly.

Why is it that these changes cannot be applied upstream?  GNU make takes
the very latest versions of these files from the FSF project that
maintains them before every release.  I'd prefer not to keep locally
modified versions if possible.

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