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Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, config-patches at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:37:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name
- References: <49A77132.3060506@byu.net> <20090427064710.GA15625@air.net.au>
Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:50:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so
>> much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation
>> in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the most recent
>> beta announcement:
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/msg00018.html
>
> For consistency with other system triplets that append their version
> number, could we emit the version number unconditionally for all
> Cygwin systems? (eg. i686-pc-cygwin1.5)?
Maybe I've missed something; if we do that, won't we have to audit every
configure script in the world looking for places that match "*-*-cygwin"
without a trailing wildcard? Such scripts would need fixing before they'd
work with 1.7, true, but wouldn't it break a lot of things that currently work
just fine for 1.5?
cheers,
DaveK
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