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Subject: Re: Which CHOST?
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Hello Eric,

thank you.

> I'm not sure what you meant by CHOST - it's not an environment variable t=
hat
> I'm familiar with. =A0Who expects it to be set? =A0Did you mean target tr=
iplet?

I wasn't aware that is so specific for the gentoo build tools. Yes,
there it is a central environment variable.

>> It is i686-pc-cygwin1.7 according to this posting from Eric:
>>
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00669.html
>
> That patch was rejected upstream.

Instead your posting became the origin of the official $CHOST setting
for  Gentoo/Cygwin. :-)

I file in a bug report to switch it.

Al

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