Is anyone using msys to build OpenJDK?

[Erik Joelsson]

Regarding msys2, some years ago, I got it working on my Windows laptop. 
It didn't require much then. IIRC it just identified itself a bit 
differently. It didn't improve build performance over Cygwin however, so 
I never committed those changes.

It is my understanding that msys2 is the fork/continuation of msys and 
that the original msys is basically dead.

/Erik

On 2018-12-16 23:52, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Just a short note: the old msys stopped working at a point when they only shipped a far too old bash. The new msys2 project was functionally identical (from out PoV), and shipped more recent versions of tools. However, there might have been some other issues with that; I remember that they were discussed as a series of patches, but I'm not sure if they were integrated. The person driving the msys2 adoption also wanted to do some other major change, like supporting a new version of Visual Studio, or building on Windows with gcc at the same time, so the patches got quite convoluted.
>
> It might be that the original msys project has caught up on bash distributions by now, but I don't know.
>
> A good guess is that msys is not widely used. An almost as good guess is that it's not used at all, and currently not working.
>
> That's not saying that I endorse its removal.
>
> /Magnus
>
>> 15 dec. 2018 kl. 02:38 skrev Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>:
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>> If anyone is currently using msys to build OpenJDK, I'm curious to know what version so I can replicate that environment.
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>> As we are trying to add WSL support, we are touching all sorts of places in configure, and there is a big risk that we break the existing msys support. I would like to be able to setup an environment so I can at least do basic verification of such changes.
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>> I know we initially set this up for msys, but later I tried msys2, which seemed a lot more modern and easy to use. I do remember there were several options on how to setup it up exactly though.
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>> /Erik
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