On 2/17/22 15:09, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-02-17 14:40:01 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Sure, that could be done, but what's the issue? Msys2 normally defines
>> MSYSTEM for you - see /etc/msystem which is sourced by /etc/profile.
> It seems not a great idea to me to use different sources of truth about build
> target. And I think it's not hard to get the actual host_os and MSYSTEM to
> disagree:
> - afaics it's quite possible to run configure outside of a login msys shell
> - you could do an msys build in a ucrt shell, but specify --host=x86_64-pc-msys,
> or the other way round
Very well. I think the easiest way will be to stash $host_os in the
environment and let the script pick it up similarly to what I suggested
with MSYSTEM.
cheers
andrew
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