Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:02:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't see any benefits to appending the cygwin version number to > the triplet. That just makes extra typing. So what if there is new > functionality? That's what configure is supposed to determine. That is generally my pr

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:01:57PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christopher Faylor on 4/27/2009 10:02 AM: >>>That would be fine with me. Properly written scripts already use >>>cygwin* as the case for detecting cygwin in general. >> >>I don't see any benefits to appending the cygwin vers

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 4/27/2009 10:02 AM: >> That would be fine with me. Properly written scripts already use cygwin* >> as the case for detecting cygwin in general. > > I don't see any benefits to appending the cygwin version number to

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:55:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Ben Elliston on 4/27/2009 12:47 AM: >>> The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so >>> much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation >>> in config.guess. For reference, notice t

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Dave Korn
Ben Elliston wrote: > Hi Eric > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:50:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > >> The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so >> much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation >> in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ben Elliston on 4/27/2009 12:47 AM: >> The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so >> much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation >> in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the mo

Re: Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-04-26 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Eric On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:50:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so > much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation > in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the most recent > beta announcement

Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the most recent beta announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/msg00018.html For an example o