X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CB37CB2.2070802@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:08:02 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Which CHOST? References: <4CB3760A DOT 5060803 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 10/11/2010 03:01 PM, Al wrote: > I wasn't aware that is so specific for the gentoo build tools. Yes, > there it is a central environment variable. Why did gentoo need to invent it? And does it have any documentation? > Instead your posting became the origin of the official $CHOST setting > for Gentoo/Cygwin. :-) Oh, so you're worried more about a cross-compilation environment hosted on gentoo, rather than something directly pertaining to cygwin. Do the gentoo folks not follow upstream development of the GNU config project? git://git.sv.gnu.org/config.git is the latest and greatest config.guess program that should be shared by all GNU software. And while not all packages ported to cygwin are GNU software, there is a large number of non-GNU packages that also uses GNU config.guess and friends to base decisions on. -- Eric Blake eblake AT redhat DOT com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple