On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Earnie <[email protected]> wrote: > JonY wrote: > >> >> MSYS has been strongly associated with mingw.org for a very long >> time, hence to autotools, MSYS uname string can be assumed to be >> i686-pc-mingw32. >> >
Hello JonY and Ernie, Thank you both for your responses. > Let me state that the string from the MSYS uname is controlled by an > environment variable MSYSTEM. So if MSYSTEM is changed to say mingw64 > then the config.guess and config.sub scripts could be changed to > recognize the uname string to produce i686-pc-mingw64, x86_64-mingw64 or > even x86_64-w64-mingw32 which ever is preferred. The uname string from > MSYS would read MINGW64_NT-5.1 if MSYSTEM=mingw64. > I believe MSYSTEM should be set uppercase, as setting mingw32 lowercase do not identify properly. This change should be send upstream? > My personal preference for a config.guess return string would be > x86_64-w64-mingw. > I believe this was already established as "x86_64-w64-mingw32" ? http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/MSYS -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
