Re: fairywren failures

On 10/25/19 3:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-10-16 13:34, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Could you please check how this animal is labeled? AFAICT, this is not
>>> an msys2 build but a mingw build (x86_64-w64-mingw32).
>> It is indeed an msys2 system. However, when we set MSYSTEM=MINGW64 as
>> we do in fairywren's config environment so that the compiler it is
>> properly detected by configure (using Msys2's /etc/config.site)
>> 'uname -a' reports MINGW64... instead of MSYS...
> When you install MSYS2 from msys2.org, you get three possible build
> targets, depending on what you set MSYSTEM to:
>
> MSYSTEM=MINGW32
> MSYSTEM=MINGW64
> MSYSTEM=MSYS
>
> When a buildfarm member identifiers itself as "msys ... 2", then I would
> expect the third variant, but that's not what it's doing. A
> MSYSTEM=MSYS build is similar to a Cygwin build (since MSYS2 is a fork
> of Cygwin), which is also a valid thing to do, but it's obviously quite
> different from a mingw build.

If it helps you I can change the compiler name in the animal metainfo to
mingw64-gcc. Msys2 is the build environment, but not the target, which
is native Windows.

cheers

andrew

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