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Re: try try again
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Earnie.
perlspinr@att.net wrote:
>
> Still hoping that someone will find this important
> enough to answer.
>
> An updated detail is that I can override the value
> of "MACHTYPE" and "HOSTTYPE" in Cygwin per se, but not
> in MSYS -- Earnie? CC:ing you this time.
>
> Soren Andersen
> ---------------------- Forwarded Message: ---------------------
> From: perlspinr@att.net
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: A small question on machine id
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 19:13:20 +0000
>
> The formal architecture triplet like:
> cpu-company-os(-kernel)
>
> on my Pentium machine gives
> MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin
> and it's the same in Earnie's current Msys cygwin DLL -
> based system as in Cygwin proper.
>
> I am wondering why?
>
> Obviously one would expect the shell variable value to
> be "i586-pc-(cygwin|msys)"?
>
> TIA,
> Soren Andersen (perlspinr)
>
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