Cygwin problems

Daniel Veillard Daniel.Veillard at w3.org
Thu Jul 16 11:06:41 PDT 1998


[ I'm resending this mail which bounced due to the "config" string in the
  beginning of the line, the author is Pavel.Roskin at ecsoft.co.uk, Daniel ]

> Hello!
> 
> Can anybody explain me why the configuration files for cygwin are placed in
> c onfig/i386/win32/cygnus, 4 levels below of the distibution root? All other
> c onfigurations are placed 3 levels below, for example config/parisc/hpux or
> c onfig/alpha/linux. I think, files from config/i386/win32/cygnus should be
> moved to config/i386/win32 while directory config/i386/win32/cygnus should
> be removed.
> It could be also useful to get latest config.sub and config.guess from
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool-1.2b.tar.gz. IMHO it is better to use
> official sources and do all non-official system name canonicalization (if
> somebody still needs it) in configure.in or somewhere else.
> 
> Sincerely, Pavel Roskin.

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