Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Specifying --build (was: make curl fails)

[Mark Brand]

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> Prefixing config.guess will cause more confusion than clarity. So I'm
> opting for:
>
>      --build="`config.guess`"
>
> which makes clear that (1) this might not be a constant, and
> (2) that the build depends on config.guess, and should thus
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> the $(BUILD) construction is brittle and hides important
> dependencies. That's why I'm replacing this with a more obvious
> construct that is less likely to introduce subtle bugs in the future:
>
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/edbbb34baf47

I agree. It's better to call config.guess directly instead via BUILD 
while still having an uncluttered look:

>         --build="`config.guess`"

> I just did a final "grep wine" over the sources, and notices
> the following patch files:
>
>      src/gtkglextmm-1-fixes.patch
>      src/pango-1-fixes.patch
>
> Those still contain some wine cross-compiling hacks. Are those
> still necessary, even with our great new "--build" trick?

Those are almost just as certainly obsolete as the removed sed hacks. 
I'll remove these patches, add --build, do a test build and push the 
changes if there are no problems.

Mark