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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>, "CU List" <Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:11:56 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
>
> This rule is changed for 2.50 and greater.  Build no longer takes on
the
> value of host and you're warned about this when specifying --host
> without specifying --build.  IIRC, if you specify build without host
> then host takes on the value of build but I may be wrong on this
point.

The autoconf 2.5 manual specifies that build takes on the value of host
AND that a warning is generated. I've also checked the generated macros,
and that is the behaviour.

I too thought that the build was checked if --host was specified but
build omited in 2.5 which is why I investigated.

Rob


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