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Subject: RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:45:55 -0400
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From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw@agere.com>
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If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should
use "-dumpmachine" instead.

 $ gcc -dumpmachine
 i686-pc-cygwin
 $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
 i686-pc-mingw32

Lloyd Wood wrote:
> cygming, not cygwin? ('ming' is a strong insult in the UK. I get
> the impression the writer doesn't like cygwin.)

You think that's bad? When the company I was working for spun off
from AT&T, they decided to name themselves "loo scent". :-) I must
admit I'd never heard of the UK "ming" until you mentioned it. I
suspect we at least pronounce it differently, though.

gsw

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