On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:49 PM, NightStrike <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> @NightStrike: 'windows' sounds good, but as mentioned above, will be >> almost impossible to bring this now. > > I can dream, can't I? :) >
Yes, sorry for that, didn't wanted to kill your dream :-) >> The changes to implement just 'mingw' (without the 32) are extensive >> and could affect a lot of projects that are assuming mingw32. > > Actually, going from mingw32 to mingw is fairly easy. config.guess > has already been modified upstream to be mingw*. So actually, I had > an item on my todo list to make all of our automated builds drop the > -32. Of course, that has taken a lesser priority than making the > automated builds actually work............ > config.guess yes, but not config.sub, which is the one for shortcut environment options (--host=mingw32 translates, but not mingw64) >> With all due respect, back to my point: has anyone tried send patches >> to upstream for config.guess? I would like to as correct platform >> detection can remove one additional step users need to do manually >> every time. > > I thought we already straightened out upstream config.guess. The > issue is in the uname command issued in a WOW environment, IIUC. I see, so the workarounds needed are in uname, which is the one used by config.guess. Will take me a long retraining to do CVS again and look into uname. (me not happy anymore) > On a long term scale, it'd be nice to compile msys natively for win64. > That's a looooong way off, though. > Indeed, but you can still dream the day :-) Again, thank you guys for your time and responses -- 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
