Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: use a more canonical method to fix the CPU reporting

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> In `git version --build-options`, we report also the CPU, but in Git for
> Windows we actually cross-compile the 32-bit version in a 64-bit Git for
> Windows, so we cannot rely on the auto-detected value.
>
> In 3815f64b0dd9 (mingw: fix CPU reporting in `git version
> --build-options`, 2019-02-07), we fixed this by a Windows-only
> workaround, making use of magic pre-processor constants, which works in
> GCC, but most likely not all C compilers.
>
> As pointed out by Eric Sunshine, there is a better way, anyway: to set
> the Makefile variable HOST_CPU explicitly for cross-compiled Git. So
> let's do that!
>
> This reverts commit 3815f64b0dd983bdbf9242a0547706d5d81cb3e6 partially.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  compat/mingw.h   | 19 -------------------
>  config.mak.uname |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Will apply; thanks.

>
> diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
> index 363f047df0..8c24ddaa3e 100644
> --- a/compat/mingw.h
> +++ b/compat/mingw.h
> @@ -6,25 +6,6 @@ typedef _sigset_t sigset_t;
>  #include <winsock2.h>
>  #include <ws2tcpip.h>
>  
> -#ifdef __MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR
> -/*
> - * In Git for Windows, we cannot rely on `uname -m` to report the correct
> - * architecture: /usr/bin/uname.exe will report the architecture with which the
> - * current MSYS2 runtime was built, not the architecture for which we are
> - * currently compiling (both 32-bit and 64-bit `git.exe` is built in the 64-bit
> - * Git for Windows SDK).
> - */
> -#undef GIT_HOST_CPU
> -/* This was figured out by looking at `cpp -dM </dev/null`'s output */
> -#if defined(__x86_64__)
> -#define GIT_HOST_CPU "x86_64"
> -#elif defined(__i686__)
> -#define GIT_HOST_CPU "i686"
> -#else
> -#error "Unknown architecture"
> -#endif
> -#endif
> -
>  /* MinGW-w64 reports to have flockfile, but it does not actually have it. */
>  #ifdef __MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR
>  #undef _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS
> diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
> index 3ee7da0e23..194f20a8b3 100644
> --- a/config.mak.uname
> +++ b/config.mak.uname
> @@ -553,9 +553,11 @@ else
>  		prefix = /usr/
>  		ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM))
>  			prefix = /mingw32
> +			HOST_CPU = i686
>  		endif
>  		ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM))
>  			prefix = /mingw64
> +			HOST_CPU = x86_64
>  		else
>  			COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T
>  			BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware