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Re: MSYS mode (continue)


On 7/4/2013 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hmm, out of curiousity.  Why is the name MINGW_NT-6.1-WOW64\0 not
suitable.  For what is this 32 good for?

Sorry, for this stupid question.

No sorry here, it's not stupid.  I agree, why not just drop the "32"?

Because it would break any configure scripts or config.guess that test for:

case $(uname -s) in
MINGW32-* ) ...
esac

There are a few of those in the wild, although modern config.guess says:

    *:MINGW64*:*)
        echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-mingw64
        exit ;;
    *:MINGW*:*)
        echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-mingw32
        exit ;;
    i*:MSYS*:*)
        echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-msys
        exit ;;

(FWIW, I'm not sure what MINGW64 is all about...)

--
Chuck


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