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Re: MSYS mode (continue)
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:43:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: MSYS mode (continue)
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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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