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Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-


On 10/18/2017 6:58 PM, JonY wrote:
> On 10/18/2017 10:41 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2017-10-18 14:10, cyg Simple wrote:
>>> On 10/18/2017 1:11 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>>> On 2017-10-18 09:05, cyg Simple wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone care if a patch to config.guess changes the i*:CYGWIN*:*
>>>>> filter to echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-unknown-cygwin?
>>>>
>>>> That would be incorrect.  config.guess is fine as it is.
>>>
>>> So the corrective action is to distribute GCC and friends as
>>> x86_64-unknown-cygwin-*.exe instead of x86_64-pc-cygwin-*.exe.
>>
>> Incorrect.  GCC is also fine as is.
>>
> 
> I agree with Yaakov, why does it need to change?
> 

See my response to Yaakov.  If you supply explicit host and build to
configure it does not work.

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