build_env(): respect the MSYS environment variable

With this commit, you can call MSYS=noemptyenvvalues my-command and it does what is expected: to pass no empty-valued environment variables to `my-command`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
msys2 · Jun 18, 2023 · c3f0426 · c3f0426
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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc
@@ -1203,7 +1203,11 @@ build_env (const char * const *envp, PWCHAR &envblock, int &envc,
     {
       bool calc_tl = !no_envblock;
 #ifdef __MSYS__
-      if (!keep_posix)
+      if (ascii_strncasematch(*srcp, "MSYS=", 5))
+        {
+          parse_options (*srcp + 5);
+	}
+      else if (!keep_posix)
         {
           /* Don't pass timezone environment to non-msys applications */
           if (ascii_strncasematch(*srcp, "TZ=", 3))