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Re: Renaming mingw64 to mingw* for x86_64 architecure
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>, Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:31:46 +0000
- Subject: Re: Renaming mingw64 to mingw* for x86_64 architecure
- References: <OF32B366B7.A38BF823-ONC1257249.00458B7E-C1257249.00467151@onevision.de>
Hi Kai,
Reasoned by some discussion with Ben Elliston I renamed the target name
for x86_64-pc-mingw64 to x86_64-pc-mingw32. It is just a double naming of
a 64-bit architecture and the API of mingw (and of MS) is still the Win32
API with some small extensions for the new windows (Vista) version.
Therefore it looks for my self reasonable to unify the OS extension for
this platforms.
I have applied the binutils specific portions of this patch. (ie the
changes to everything except the top level files).
Additionally I attached the changes for configure.in, config.guess, and
config.sub to this e-mail, too.
Ben has applied the patch to config.guess, but not to config.sub. I do
not know why not. Ben ?
I will apply the patch to the top level configure file shortly.
Cheers
Nick
PS. A few minor points on the ChangeLog patch:
1. Please do not submit additions to the ChangeLog files as a patch -
it never applies because ChangeLogs are updated so frequently. Instead
just supply the ChangeLog entries as plain text.
2. It is "Ditto" not "Dito".
3. Even though patch etiquette has it that there is no need to
include a patch for an automatically generated file (eg
binutils/configure) you should still include a mention that the file is
regenerated in the ChangeLog entry for the master file from which it is
built. eg:
binutils/ChangeLog
2007-01-08 Kai Tietz <kai.tietz@onevision.com>
* configure.in: Renamed target x86_64-*-mingw64 to
x86_64-*-mingw*.
* configure: Regenerated.