From: Ray Donnelly <mingw.android@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [PATCH 07/14] Fix BASIC_LDFLAGS and COMPAT_CFLAGS for 64bit MinGW-w64
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1410092115100.990@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Marat Radchenko wrote:
>
>> +CC_MACH := $(shell sh -c '$(CC) -dumpmachine 2>/dev/null || echo not')
>
> There is a rather huge problem with that. The latest mingw-w64 release,
> 4.9.1, does not do what you expect here: while '.../mingw32/bin/gcc -m32
> -o 32.exe test.c' and '.../mingw32/bin/gcc -m64 -o 64.exe test.c' work
> fine, producing i686 and x86_64 executables respectively,
> '.../mingw32/bin/gcc -dumpmachine' prints i686-w64-mingw32 *always*, even
> when specifying the -m64 option.
>
> So unfortunately, the test introduced by this patch (intended to figure
> out whether the build targets i686, and skip a compiler and a linker
> option otherwise) is incorrect.

Which release are you talking about? Can you point me to the tarball please?

>
> Ciao,
> Johannes