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Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:14:36 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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Earnie.

perlspinr@att.net wrote:
> 
> Still hoping that someone will find this important
> enough to answer.
> 
> An updated detail is that I can override the value
> of "MACHTYPE" and "HOSTTYPE" in Cygwin per se, but not
> in MSYS -- Earnie? CC:ing you this time.
> 
>    Soren Andersen
> ----------------------  Forwarded Message:  ---------------------
> From:    perlspinr@att.net
> To:      cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: A small question on machine id
> Date:    Sun, 26 May 2002 19:13:20 +0000
> 
> The formal architecture triplet like:
> cpu-company-os(-kernel)
> 
> on my Pentium machine gives
> MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin
> and it's the same in Earnie's current Msys cygwin DLL -
> based system as in Cygwin proper.
> 
> I am wondering why?
> 
> Obviously one would expect the shell variable value to
> be "i586-pc-(cygwin|msys)"?
> 
>   TIA,
>    Soren Andersen (perlspinr)
> 
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