Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 12:55:06AM -0400, John Ericson wrote:
> OK here we go:
> 
>  1. https://github.com/ericson2314/gnu-config/commit/windows-mingnu.patch
>  2. https://github.com/ericson2314/gnu-config/commit/windows-mingw.patch
>  3. https://github.com/ericson2314/gnu-config/commit/no-windows-gnu.patch
> 
> I tried to honestly argue for each of them the best I could in the 
> commit message. I know I prefer (1); I am guessing Jacob prefers (2), 
> and Po Lu prefers (3).
> 
> Have fun, Dmitry :).

I'm inclined to remove windows-gnu from config.sub instead of renaming or
canonicalizing it because, firstly, there is no GNU libc on windows, and,
secondly, windows-gnu as used by LLVM means MinGW, but for that we already
have mingw*, and we should avoid adding new canonical names for the same
thing.  We could add canonicalization of windows-mingw* into mingw*, but
if nobody uses the former, why bother?

At the same time, I'm inclined to leave windows-msvc as is because,
unlike windows-gnu, it does exist, and the only one who objected against
windows-msvc and suggested to canonicalize windows-msvc into winnt was
Po Lu, but the arguments provided against windows-msvc were not convincing.


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