-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2010 00:08, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 15 December 2010 13:36, NightStrike <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/14/10, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> $ cat dpkg/ostable >>> # This file contains the table of known operating system names. >>> # >>> # Architecture names are formed as a combination of the system name >>> # (from this table) and CPU name (from cputable) after mapping from >>> # the Debian triplet (from triplettable). A list of architecture >>> # names in the Debian ‘sid’ distribution can be found in the archtable >>> # file. >>> # >>> # Column 1 is the Debian name for the system, used to form the system part >>> # in the Debian triplet. >>> # Column 2 is the GNU name for the system, used to output build and host >>> # targets in ‘dpkg-architecture’. >>> # Column 3 is an extended regular expression used to match against the >>> # system part of the output of the GNU config.guess script. >> >> >> So.... debian renames all of the existing GNU triplets that are >> standardized? Why is that at all necessary? >> > > To define a new dpkg architecture. > To define a new name. > Often it is necessary when GNU triplets is doesn't exist, not > standardized or multiple triplets are used. > > E.g. Gnu/kfreebsd port and msys (no triplet in upstream git checkout > of config.guess and config.sub) >
MSYS isn't there for a reason, its not meant to be used as a platform on its own. Its there to support mingw on Windows. Windows doesn't come with a shell interpreter. It really shouldn't be in config.guess. You should use Cygwin if you want use unix-ish conventions on Windows. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAk0JUKMACgkQp56AKe10wHcCfQCcCvH+gL6GPyrdFJRpT1ZERw0O ALgAnjjv/Go9ZJALiPsThdpNhXXKvkCq =MNjy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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