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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:00:35 -0500
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: next net release preview
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In-Reply-To: <200002281946.OAA18911@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:46:11PM -0500

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:46:11PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> Neverthless, I hope that Cygnus/Red Hat defines definitely the
>> reasonable policy about packages, such as the prefix directory,
>> the host type name (i686-pc-cygwin32 or i686-pc-cygwin ?), and
>> so on.
>
>What's in the preview doesn't meet all the goals I'd like.  I'm
>hoping that new packages would be:
>
>	i686-pc-cygwin
>	--prefix=/usr
>
>The target was discussed in a past thread; I don't recall about the
>prefix.

I've been discussing this with Mumit in private email.  He's got some
ideas about this.

cgf