Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A26B178.B2D71685@home.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:58:48 -0500 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: At-Home user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: What's in a name? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. 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. I know that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (and mine shrinks daily with age,) but could we perhaps agree on what to call this environment? All this, just to rebuild some simple libraries! :-) -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate. Public Key at: "Don't buy or use crappy software" "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com