m2005 untar error on msys2 (tar01 directory)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 05/05/2020 09:48, Chris Johns wrote:

>>>> It is currently busy building the 5/rtems-sparc build set (without 
>>>> GDB) in a mingw64 shell. Is a build in the msys shell something 
>>>> useful/supported? 
>>>
>>> Yes, we have valid users. Plus building on Windows is valid for the 
>>> same reasons we build from source on all hosts maybe more so. 
>>
>> If I install msys/mingw I get an msys, mingw32 and mingw64 shell. 
>> They are all somewhat different. Are all of them supposed to be 
>> supported?
>
> They are different in a subtle way, they set different paths so you 
> get a different set of native executables and DLLs in your path. Run:
>
>  `set | grep ^PATH`
>
> in each instance and compare. On top of that the mingw native tools 
> are specifically named, something I completely agree with.
>
> MSYS2 is well thought out, the pacmac tools is great. Like cygwin a 
> rolling release makes baselining for deployment or a product hard. 
Yes, but should RTEMS build on all three shells? Which one is recommended?