What's in a name?
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
lhall@rfk.com
Thu Nov 30 12:32:00 GMT 2000
At 02:58 PM 11/30/2000, David A. Cobb wrote:
>Under bash I find a variable $MACHTYPE="i686-pc-Cygwin"
>
>That's nice, I thought, because I need to key a load of directory
>references depending on whether I'm in Win32 or Cygwin. HOWEVER,
>several installations seem to think it should be "-Cygwin32" when they
>build their "/usr/local/???/i686-pc-?????????" subtrees.
These are old. Cygwin used to be referred to as Cygwin32.
>And 'config.guess', at least the one I looked at calls 'uname' which
>says I have an
>"i586" and cannot make any sense out of my configuration at all.
Interesting. Mine says:
>uname -m
i686
Are you sure you're up-to-date in your Cygwin environment?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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