If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use "-dumpmachine" instead.
$ gcc -dumpmachine i686-pc-cygwin $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin i686-pc-mingw32 Lloyd Wood wrote: > cygming, not cygwin? ('ming' is a strong insult in the UK. I get > the impression the writer doesn't like cygwin.) You think that's bad? When the company I was working for spun off from AT&T, they decided to name themselves "loo scent". :-) I must admit I'd never heard of the UK "ming" until you mentioned it. I suspect we at least pronounce it differently, though. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/