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Re: What's in a name?
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- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:44:52 -0500
- References: <3A26B178.B2D71685@home.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:58:48PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>Under bash I find a variable $MACHTYPE="i686-pc-Cygwin"
>
>That's nice, I thought, because I need to key a load of directory
>references depending on whether I'm in Win32 or Cygwin. HOWEVER,
>several installations seem to think it should be "-Cygwin32" when they
>build their "/usr/local/???/i686-pc-?????????" subtrees.
>
>And 'config.guess', at least the one I looked at calls 'uname' which
>says I have an
>"i586" and cannot make any sense out of my configuration at all.
>
>I know that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (and mine
>shrinks daily with age,) but could we perhaps agree on what to call this
>environment?
Ever heard of "wildcards"? You should study up on them. They're really
powerful.
Or, for fun, you might want to take a leisurely stroll through the
mailing list archives where this subject has been discussed 1099 times
before.
cgf
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