processor compatibility when building packages

[Danny Smith]

This topic came up about a year ago on this list: 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-07/msg00039.html

and I've recently raised it again on mingw lists.

Looking at cygwin's spec file it says:


*cpp_cpu_default:
%(cpp_686)


To me that means that, unless user overrides with command line -march or
-mcpu option, code is tuned for i686.  To get that into the specs file, one
has to either configure gcc so that TARGET_CPU_DEFAULT=3 (=pentium) or pass
that define to make when building gcc.

That interpretion is different from the conclusion that was posted in the
message pointed to above, which says that cygwin-produced code will run on
any i[35467]86 arch.  

I'm not talking about the platform triplet moniker -- that I realise is
just a name.  I'm asking: Has anyone complained that cygwin-built apps fail
on i386 but not on i686? 

Danny


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