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Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:49:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-
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- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2017-10-17 13:16, cyg Simple wrote:
> The config.guess file[1] is confused.
>
> 840 i*:CYGWIN*:*)
> 841 echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-cygwin
> 842 exit ;;
> -----
> 870 amd64:CYGWIN*:*:* | x86_64:CYGWIN*:*:*)
> 871 echo x86_64-unknown-cygwin
> 872 exit ;;
>
> The GCC executable is x86_64-pc-cygwin-gcc.exe but config.guess on my
> system gives x86_64-unknown-cygwin so specifying a fully qualified host
> doesn't find the executable file. So which should it be?
>
> [1]http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.guess?id=c003e5cb947924ca5edd25c3b840aaa373c66b28
There are also similar confusions and differences between projects and distros
about use of x86_64 (or x86-64) and amd64. You may have come across others.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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