rustc on Mingw64(MSYS2) fails to build

[Teapot4195]

When trying to run any ./x.py subcommand, bootstrap panics trying to canonicalize the path returned by the git command.

thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 3, kind: NotFound, message: "The system cannot find the path specified." }', config.rs:910:74```

[ChrisDenton]

Is this using a git installed via the msys2 package manager? I believe that has been patched to use msys2 style paths which the Rust build system does not support.

[Teapot4195]

It is installed

[Teapot4195]

well, i think that we should change the README so that we do not instruct people to install the git provided by msys2

as of right now it instructs users to run pacman -S git which is very misleading

[workingjubilee]

Agreed. What would be the correct advisory regarding installing git, here?

[Teapot4195]

The instructions should tell users to not install the msys version of git, instead users should install the regular version using chocolatey or otherwise and to add the path to msys.

[mati865]

Duplicate of #105696

[workingjubilee]

Ah! Closing then.