> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:09:47 +0400
> From: Pavel Fedin <pavel_fe...@mail.ru>
> CC: bug-make@gnu.org
> 
> >> and that means that I need to use --host=i586-mingw32msvc when building
> >> make.
> 
> > Why does the prefix end with "msvc"?  The MSVC compiler is not
> > involved in this build or in the target system, so the prefix sounds
> > wrong.
> 
>  May   be  simply  replace  "mingw32"  with  "mingw"  ?

Because mingw32 is the canonical name, and too many configure scripts
out there already know about it.

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