RE: Patches for Mingw/MSYS

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> I'm curious, how did you get "*-*-msys*" into $host? I thought MSYS
> was autodetected as *-*-mingw* by config.guess. Is that not always
> the case?

Same wonderings here.  Unless someone has changed the operation of 
standard config.guess.

> (But I do believe that MSYS is a better basis for a name for $host
> than MinGW, since I have understood it as MSYS being the
> environment and MinGW the compiler/toolchain. But that's a bit
> late to change IMHO.)

Yes, it would likely break things other than libtool.  I am sure that 
it would break certain other things in the package I maintain.

> Regarding the suggestion to remove .exe from cwrapper, that can't
> be 100% right as $RM $cwrapper on the line following your change
> will then not remove the exe-file (as intended?).

Cygwin and MSYS both use a .exe-based wrapper, which is different than 
for Unix platforms (even though Unix could use it).  I am not sure why 
the extension should be removed.  It seems like that would break 
something since the bare name without the extension is the formal 
target name.

Bob
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