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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.

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