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


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