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<2e67e7e4-f689-164e-da78-712f60490e9b AT gmail DOT com> <07e896be-05ce-1c21-da25-c66487684bc0 AT cygwin DOT com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <0621b067-5960-80d6-5666-4d2248cbd7cf@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:11:01 -0400 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: <07e896be-05ce-1c21-da25-c66487684bc0@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/20/2017 11:54 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2017-10-20 10:44, cyg Simple wrote: >> On 10/20/2017 11:24 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2017-10-20 08:28, cyg Simple wrote: >>>> On 10/19/2017 4:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>>>> 2) the output of config.guess is a default and does NOT reflect, or need >>>>> to match, our chosen triplet. There is nothing to fix in config.guess. >>>> >>>> Fine, it doesn't have to match, why don't you want it to? >>> >>> Because there is no correlation, is completely normal, and therefore no >>> need to special case Cygwin. >> >> What is *normal* about it? Just because other's do it? I gave >> scenarios in the mail which you elided from your response which give >> credence to a reason to change it. > > You are still looking at these from the same perspective you were > yesterday. Let me restate this one (hopefully last) time: > > Your assumption is that the default and chosen triplets must/should be > one and the same. No, I assume no such thing. > They are not, they need not be, and we are far from > being alone in this regard. Once you accept *that*, then the rest of > this will make sense. Further insistence that they should be is > counter-productive at this point. You still skirt a reasoning for it to be so. They don't need to be but why aren't they? You've failed to answer the question by assuming I need to be educated on how it is and refusing to give me a reason of why it is. I know that I can specify something other than the default. I don't know why the default is not the same as the chosen. You keep failing to answer that question. Why does it *need* to stay -unknown- instead of -pc-? -- cyg Simple -- 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