On 10/19/2017 04:18 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 10/19/2017 10:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 10/19/2017 9:19 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> On 10/18/2017 6:58 PM, JonY wrote: >>>> I agree with Yaakov, why does it need to change? >>>> >>> >>> See my response to Yaakov. If you supply explicit host and build to >>> configure it does not work. >> >> So don't do that. Specifying host is for cross-compilation. Specifying >> build without host is for overriding the result of config.guess (never >> necessary on Cygwin). See >> >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html >> >> >> In particular: "If you mean to override the result of config.guess, use >> --build, not --host, since the latter enables cross-compilation." >> > > So?! It is still incorrect for the --target of the GCC build to be > x86_64-pc-cygwin. My example didn't specify a different build from > host. I ran across this from a package that was refusing to accept the > config.guess build triplet so I tried specifying both. At that point it > failed to find x86_64-unknown-cygwin-gcc. > > And ./configure --build=`/path/to/config.guess` will not work either as > currently delivered. > > x86_64-pc-cygwin IS NOT CORRECT. It needs fixed in the build process. >
If it means that much to you, use -pc- instead.
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