Re: [PATCH] config.sub: Accept LLVM-style `$cpu-$vendor-windows-{gnu, mingw}`

2023-07-04 Thread John Ericson
Thank you very much Dmitry, and apologies for the duplicate emails. I seem to always forget I am subscribed with list@... not git@... :). Cheers, John On 7/3/23 15:50, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 07:56:57PM -0400, John Ericson wrote: In older times, MinGW (GCC toolchain wi

Re: [PATCH] config.sub: Accept LLVM-style `$cpu-$vendor-windows-{gnu, mingw}`

2023-07-03 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 07:56:57PM -0400, John Ericson wrote: > In older times, MinGW (GCC toolchain with modified windows headers) was > the only free software toolchain for Windows. But now, LLVM has > excellent support both for MinGW ABI and Microsoft's own. (The > distinction matters for C++ mo

Re: [PATCH] config.sub: Accept LLVM-style `$cpu-$vendor-windows-{gnu, mingw}`

2023-06-26 Thread John Ericson
For the record, this came out of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/235230. I am one of the original/main authors of Nixpkgs/NixOS's platform specification system, and also a few years back contributed a major refactor/systematization of GNU config. (Look no further than the recent 63acb96f9