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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:42:21 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin
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> Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:25:17 +1100
> From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
> To: "Jon Leichter" <jon AT symas DOT com>
> CC: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Leichter" <jon AT symas DOT com>
> > > See above why it doesn't. mingw != cygwin :}.
> >
> > If 'build' WERE to be tested automatically, independent to 'host', it
> would
> > come up with 'i686-pc-cygwin'. Thus, we'd effectively end up with the
> same
> > line you specified above. So that does work, right? Or are you trying
> to
> > confuse me again??? :)
> 
> What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. IF build were tested correctly
> yes. But it's not currently tested - it defaults to host IFF host is
> defined.
> 

This rule is changed for 2.50 and greater.  Build no longer takes on the
value of host and you're warned about this when specifying --host
without specifying --build.  IIRC, if you specify build without host
then host takes on the value of build but I may be wrong on this point.

Earnie.

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