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Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*


From: Zack Weinberg
Subject: Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:42:32 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, at 8:34 PM, Po Lu wrote:
...
> Given that the MinGW ABI does not constitute the GNU operating system
> executing on the MS-Windows kernel, and MSVC is not an operating system,
> such blunders should be ignored, or at least normalized...

Even more important than this is the principle that config.sub canonical names 
are *never* changed, even if they are wrong according to some external standard.

zw



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