Bug#891281: DO NOT use file format of /bin/sh for x32 detection!

2018-03-04 Thread Earnie
onment. In other words the executable being built will be hosted on the specified --host. If the compiler doesn't exist to create those binaries then you need to create the build system. The --target is used to build the build systems that create binaries for specified --host systems. -- Earnie

Bug#891281: DO NOT use file format of /bin/sh for x32 detection!

2018-03-03 Thread Earnie
sing what the build system is. We don't want to set a precedent of using any executable of a compiler to determine the build. -- Earnie

Bug#606825: [Mingw-w64-public] dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.

2010-12-17 Thread Earnie
dentify the environment as MINGW32 but that string is modifiable by the end user with an environment variable named MSYSTEM. Currently MSYSTEM is set to MINGW32 but could be set to MINGW64 or MINGW or CYGWIN or WINDOWS or SOMEOTHERFOOSTRING and the MSYS uname will report that system. Earnie -- To UNSU

Bug#606825: [Mingw-w64-public] dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.

2010-12-16 Thread Earnie
ecific functionality like case-sensitive filenames. Users looking for such functionality should look to Cygwin <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Cygwin> or Microsoft's Interix <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Interix> instead. Earnie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@