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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:32:20 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/21/2009 2:44 AM:
>> Note that the next perl package for 1.7 (5.10.0-6 or 5.10.1-1)
>> will change its archlib path from i686-cygwin to i686-cygwin1.7,
>> to be able to use a cygwin-1.5 perl together with 1.7 perl,
> 
> Erm... sorry, but why would you want to do this?  Either you have a
> 1.5 based installation running a 1.5 perl, or you have a 1.7 based
> installation running a 1.7 perl.  If you have two independent
> Cygwin trees, one 1.5 and one 1.7, then there won't be any collision
> either.  I really don't understand what that's good for.

And my attempt to add *-*-cygwin1.7 as a target triple in config.guess was
turned down, as another precedence for not adding a distinguishing suffix.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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