From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69787 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2017 20:02:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 69625 invoked by uid 89); 19 Oct 2017 20:02:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=fine!, vendors, retire, sk:archr X-HELO: mail-it0-f67.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f67.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f67.google.com) (209.85.214.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:02:54 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f67.google.com with SMTP id c3so11630214itc.3 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:02:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:reply-to:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vsh0UL1JZj7kbA8gwWyh5xzemI7krtVNKXfl+C7zZQw=; b=E6rs+aCV8TSfoDCpfVG/TvYGeYKIcURVIXXPPQ05oYpCFiTIIorjYSNSfrH/IxOSqJ FQE6VrmvaCxIAt3BJMJttv0QA1XSRXVmGVsIgqM4NkodXsLVGsHu8jEZOdCoBpqta0XY 5Ac+aWeFG2HvEFceBmSfo7eOmvF5xat8YoSTXZSDeiBMItnHJ/DCF0mzbuqGZUAQdLcQ 6ULeN2yLlOXwiCWHIaKXJYYomEIJgTlixZGhD8c2EhWW5/jIB+YLOthrituswVSDkHQu EnGU36lFBXDW63YlZcZuxuI52reEExnC7cx99XLvf2S8nQZ7fqiTnPnUo9pBKn4t2Mr3 9M4g== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaXPGii4IXJlg1RKyNMU2zcgnPpEjk4+i2bgLAGzNkcwozU5nMl9 k9qZIwc6FM4fxeHQkzS2EFsqdw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+Tq6jYK5OocZrzDjlfglHpywf0fkfuiaOnoT924yCMBhiAKuI94mMg8ntaVMZoMMPy8eZq1Vg== X-Received: by 10.36.51.149 with SMTP id k143mr3646911itk.8.1508443372479; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d4-50-42-50.try.wideopenwest.com. [50.4.50.42]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w136sm1146059itw.44.2017.10.19.13.02.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Which is it -pc- or -unknown- To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7983d97c-3c6d-e3c2-2304-9527ad4c5735@gmail.com> <59e8f0cd.28279d0a.292b.4768@mx.google.com> <8a790ade-1761-b87b-b389-5f76d147c099@cygwin.com> <217068b0-f4df-1c30-07f7-8d7cbf84a52a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> From: cyg Simple Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:02:00 -0000 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: <217068b0-f4df-1c30-07f7-8d7cbf84a52a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00213.txt.bz2 On 10/19/2017 3:54 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-10-19 12:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> On 2017-10-19 13:40, cyg Simple wrote: >>> x86_64-pc-cygwin is just not correct regardless of the lack of past issues. >> >> As I have said several times, this assertion is incorrect. You need to >> use the triplet which matches the toolchain with which you are building. >> For example, Fedora and RHEL all use $arch-redhat-linux as their >> triplet, and there is nothing wrong with that. > > Vendor -unknown- is just a default in various config cases, so specifying -pc- > for consistency on Cygwin builds is a valid choice by the maintainers. > FINE! But config.guess should match the CHOSEN one. > Perhaps a statement on the cygwin-apps list could clarify what should be done by > maintainers to ensure this override, and maybe retire the use of -unknown- by > any Cygwin apps in future, with a notice to this (cygwin) list for those who > choose to build packages from net sources. > I don't care which is used as long as config.guess matches what is chosen. > Perhaps also patches should be submitted to the config and automake maintainers > to ensure that {i*,x86_64}:CYGWIN*:*... always produce vendor -pc-. Not sure > about vendors for {amd64,powerpcle}:CYGWIN*:*... in config.guess, which are > currently also set to -unknown-. > Exactly what I'm saying. It needs to match what is being distributed just for consistency and to avoid confusion. -- 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