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Re: [Fwd: PATCH: libstd++-v3 configure script and target mingw32]
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:34:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: PATCH: libstd++-v3 configure script and target mingw32]
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:22:22AM +0530, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> OK, got it. I put in a few "echo's" in the configure script and
> this is what I get (I explicitly specify "--target=mingw32"):
I'm vaguely surprised that works. My impression was that --target should
be specified as a full triplet, or at least a double.
> target_alias=mingw32 (Both before and after the assigment above)
> target=i386-pc-mingw32 (Orig. "mingw32", changed by config.sub to this)
Right. 'target' is always changed to the official form; 'target_alias'
is whatever the user typed.
> IMO then the "case switches" later should either be based on "target"
Probably, yes. I could have sworn we changed this already...
I'll look into this today or tomorrow when I have time.
Phil
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