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Re: How does setup.exe determine machine type?

To: jdtiller at best dot com
Subject: Re: How does setup.exe determine machine type?
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:03:20 -0500
CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
References: <Pine.WNT.4.32.0102261849590.-339647@tiller2.ventritex.com>


config.guess uses uname, but configure uses what you pass it for a
--target.  Setup doesn't care what kind of machine you have; it just
installs the tar files, but the cygwin tar file has files named after
the configuration (i.e. i686-pc-cygwin).

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- How does setup.exe determine machine type?
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