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Re: Cygwin 64bit triplet
On Feb 21 08:04, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> 1) Change config.guess to 'x86_64-pc-cygwin' and deal with fixing this
> >> upstream, get it pulled into the toplevel copy, and let it filter down
> >> from there;
> >>
> >> 2) We switch to 'x86_64-unknown-cygwin' now and rebuild our toolchains
> >> (both native and cross) to match, which we now have to do anyway.
> >
> > I wouldn't want to do that. The "unknown" is really weird. I'm a bit
> > puzzled. Why and where is the second part of the triplet important?
> > Why isn't it important under Linux?
>
> <quote>
> A three part configuration name is: cpu-manufacturer-operating system
> A four part configuration name is: cpu-manufacturer-kernel-operating system
> The manufacturer can sometimes be omited.
> </quote>
>
> So it could be x86_64-redhat-cygwin but it doesn't really matter from
> autoconf's POV.
But in some scenarios it does matter, otherwise Yaakov wouldn't have
mentioned it.
Corinna
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