Still hoping that someone will find this important enough to answer. An updated detail is that I can override the value of "MACHTYPE" and "HOSTTYPE" in Cygwin per se, but not in MSYS -- Earnie? CC:ing you this time. Soren Andersen ---------------------- Forwarded Message: --------------------- From: perlspinr@att.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: A small question on machine id Date: 2002年5月26日 19:13:20 +0000 The formal architecture triplet like: cpu-company-os(-kernel) on my Pentium machine gives MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin and it's the same in Earnie's current Msys cygwin DLL - based system as in Cygwin proper. I am wondering why? Obviously one would expect the shell variable value to be "i586-pc-(cygwin|msys)"? TIA, Soren Andersen (perlspinr) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/