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Re: What's in a name?


At 02:58 PM 11/30/2000, 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.


These are old.  Cygwin used to be referred to as Cygwin32.


>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.


Interesting.  Mine says:

 >uname -m
i686

Are you sure you're up-to-date in your Cygwin environment?




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