Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?]

2010-08-09 Thread Chiheng Xu
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Earnie wrote: > Chiheng Xu wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Chiheng Xu >> wrote: >> > >> > Is 64-bits MSYS or Cygwin necessary? >> > >> > MSYS may be not necessary at all. >>

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?

2010-07-30 Thread Chiheng Xu
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Chiheng Xu wrote: > > Is 64-bits MSYS or Cygwin necessary? > > MSYS may be not necessary at all. > > If Cygwin merge the changes done in MSYS, and provide a Win32_Path > mode(translating all Unix paths to Win32 paths at fork/exec or spawn)

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?

2010-07-29 Thread Chiheng Xu
all. If Cygwin merge the changes done in MSYS, and provide a Win32_Path mode(translating all Unix paths to Win32 paths at fork/exec or spawn) and MinGW transform itself to use binary mode(linking with binmode.o instead of txtmode.o) and slightly patch uname.exe in coreutils, Cygwin has the potential