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Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown-
On 10/19/2017 10:41 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 19/10/2017 15:17, cyg Simple wrote:
>>
>>
>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
>
> the correct way is
> ./configure
>
Normally yes, but ...
> don't add what you don't need..
I was trying to help a package refusing the config.guess triplet so I
needed it. Regardless delivering a target build of x86_64-pc-cygwin is
not correct! It needs to be x86_64-unknown-cygwin.
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