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improve definition/detection of mingw/msys

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<term>HOMEDRIVE</term>
<desc>
<p>
Used on ms-windows to locate the home directory.
Used on ms-windows to locate the home directory if the
HOMEPATH environment variable is also used.
</p>
</desc>
<term>HOMEPATH</term>
<desc>
<p>
Used on ms-windows to locate the home directory.
Used on ms-windows to locate the home directoryb in
conjunction with HOMEDRIVE. If this is just a backslash
then the USERPROFILE variable is used if possible.
</p>
</desc>
<term>LANGUAGES</term>
@ -506,6 +509,14 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
mechanism is to use the 'Local Time Zone' value from the
user defaults system.
</p>
<term>USERPROFILE</term>
<desc>
<p>
Used on windows to identify the home directory of the
current used (unless HOMEPATH and HOMEDRIVE are set to
point to an individual user's home).
</p>
</desc>
</deflist>
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configured and/or what operating system it was configured on.
On a GNU/Linux system, the default would be
/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf for instance, while on mswindows
it would be ./GNUstep.conf.
it would be ./GNUstep.conf (the leading './' here indicates
that the file is located relative to the base library, on
windows this is the location of the base library DLL, which
is normally the same location as command line tools).
</p>
<p>
If setting up GNUstep in a sandbox for packaging it as part
@ -542,8 +556,8 @@ notice and this notice are preserved.
(ie in a target/deployment environment).<br />
In particular it is normal for the two files to differ on
mswindows (where the build environment is an UNIX-like MSYS
shell, using unix style paths, but the deployment environment
is native-windows using windows style paths).
shell, using the its own paths, but the deployment environment
is native-windows using real windows paths).
</p>
<p>
The location of the GNUstep configuration file can be specified
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'%i' is replaced by the user ID<br />
'%%' is replaced by a single '%'<br />
</p>
<p>
The GNUSTEP_DEVELOPER_DIR path may be used to specify where
the development system is located. On most systems this
should be the default value of '/', but on windows it should
be the location of the msys/mingw filesystem (so that msys
development tools can be found).
</p>
<p>
Other paths for each user are defined by the following:
</p>