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



On 10/18/2017 6:41 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.
> 

No it is not!  The below example should work out of the box and it doesn't.

./configure --host=x86_64-unknown-cygwin --build=x86_64-unknown-cygwin

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