How does setup.exe determine machine type?

DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
Mon Feb 26 19:03:00 GMT 2001


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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