[PATCH 64bit] automake 1.13.1-1: Fix config.guess result

[Christian Franke]

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-04-12 00:38, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Recent config.guess still detects 64bit Cygwin as x86_64-unknown-cygwin.
>> This should probably be changed (upstream) to be consistent with
>> i686-pc-cygwin.
>
> This was discussed a short while ago on cygwin-developers.

Sorry for the noise - apparently "Cygwin 64bit triplet" was not part of 
my Brain-RegEx used for scanning ML subjects :-)


> Bottom line: while we could do so, it would take forever for the 
> change to "trickle-down" to ordinary packages.  It's really no 
> different from Fedora's use of x86_64-redhat-linux for their toolchain 
> while config.guess still returns x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.  cygport 
> handles this transparently, so it shouldn't cause any problems.
>

I agree. This change would have no effect or only a cosmetic effect for 
most use cases.

Christian


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