X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=kPMnHiizNDUpI6nS +jJrmD0hCJefD1dtFnAaj2kZbJaiSZjW/5SjCkhFvk0P5QoXqQY95jhFAMBm/tIg WhpFvLdjnAkcZuZ59KZNLVimEAQbeFv++uV+7FLBmGz5IN/PgRchMOVscIF3kl2c HxQR4Oq96H5/w0+0MvpgCQr0RQU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=Ho+/d2xi1CpJ21P4vUbAFZ /L83E=; b=aEUiCt/9L980hYlRZ0iFOUx3/U4kuz3imxopr15nh16Ub+uwb1L15J +ciE7BeLJM70RoDHpk4XWfIEC16aooA/Ex28XhCmKLQbXkPvdzlpezXS1th4DLT/ mOLTBMpKjkYFIdskezTCqMRJ1D5L+kmLe5gAiVbhUYqdY54Bq7LVc= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,GIT_PATCH_2,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=canada, Canada, alberta, Alberta X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=a+JAzQaF c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=q_DfLy-bZOKGlESQY_8A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=_FVE-zBwftR9WsbkzFJk:22 Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca Subject: Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown- To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <29b66287-6bd7-4e82-b35d-12a735c2070b AT gmail DOT com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <2a7bbdb0-1a76-690f-0a2a-1f64eb612df4@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:45:55 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <29b66287-6bd7-4e82-b35d-12a735c2070b@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfJH20EQAXZ3fWAKHTbUduAU3q2RqF+JL6xrihPK+x49c+2BFcn5SgHZKosvCQzaWCqrs9a1/Mq+lvWm8jt25wi9VZC7NGkmz/CUNlqPcT3sNCCs8S28g DGFFLOT7vF+R3f7F+CZDfF1YqHXrUIAFbtXpPyCgURNiLzvuf0yplpWqIDh6uZ8djNsu+kf7ge1U1w== X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2017-10-17 13:16, cyg Simple wrote: > The config.guess file[1] is confused. > > 840 i*:CYGWIN*:*) > 841 echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-cygwin > 842 exit ;; > ----- > 870 amd64:CYGWIN*:*:* | x86_64:CYGWIN*:*:*) > 871 echo x86_64-unknown-cygwin > 872 exit ;; > > The GCC executable is x86_64-pc-cygwin-gcc.exe but config.guess on my > system gives x86_64-unknown-cygwin so specifying a fully qualified host > doesn't find the executable file. So which should it be? > > [1]http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.guess?id=c003e5cb947924ca5edd25c3b840aaa373c66b28 That part of the triplet is defined as vendor, so it was probably initially Intel, then compatibles came out and that was genericized to PC, then someone objected and discussed and came up with Unknown, rather than say Any or None. It may reflect development ages of projects, autotools, defaults on projects, or project politics. Some projects still use PC, which may be a project override, others use Unknown, which should be the default in current releases of autotools. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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