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Renaming mingw64 to mingw* for x86_64 architecure

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Jan 8 17:32:00 GMT 2007 
Hi Kai,

> Reasoned by some discussion with Ben Elliston I renamed the target name 
> for x86_64-pc-mingw64 to x86_64-pc-mingw32. It is just a double naming of 
> a 64-bit architecture and the API of mingw (and of MS) is still the Win32 
> API with some small extensions for the new windows (Vista) version. 
> Therefore it looks for my self reasonable to unify the OS extension for 
> this platforms.

I have applied the binutils specific portions of this patch.  (ie the 
changes to everything except the top level files).

> Additionally I attached the changes for configure.in, config.guess, and 
> config.sub to this e-mail, too.

Ben has applied the patch to config.guess, but not to config.sub.  I do 
not know why not.  Ben ?

I will apply the patch to the top level configure file shortly.

Cheers
   Nick

PS.  A few minor points on the ChangeLog patch:

   1. Please do not submit additions to the ChangeLog files as a patch - 
it never applies because ChangeLogs are updated so frequently.  Instead 
just supply the ChangeLog entries as plain text.

   2. It is "Ditto" not "Dito".

   3. Even though patch etiquette has it that there is no need to 
include a patch for an automatically generated file (eg 
binutils/configure) you should still include a mention that the file is 
regenerated in the ChangeLog entry for the master file from which it is 
built.  eg:

   binutils/ChangeLog
   2007-01-08  Kai Tietz	<kai.tietz@onevision.com>

	* configure.in: Renamed target x86_64-*-mingw64 to
	x86_64-*-mingw*.
	* configure: Regenerated.
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