Cygwin 64bit triplet

[Earnie Boyd]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Yaakov wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:30:01 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Last set of questions (and yes, I'm really not an expert):  Why can
>> Fedora/RHEL use x86_64-redhat-linux as canonical triplet, and why has
>> Fedora/RHEL apparently no problems with that?
>
> It is only so far as binutils/gcc/gdb are concerned, otherwise it's
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.  We should be able to handle things like that
> as well: x86_64-pc-cygwin for the toolchains (native and cross) but
> leave config.guess alone (x86_64-unknown-cygwin), which by itself
> isn't all that visible.  I just need to adjust cygport accordingly.

Reading this conversation leads to a question in my mind.  Can't
cygwin.sc.in be adjusted to use @TARGET@ for the triplet and let the
configure process take care of it?

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