Renaming mingw64 to mingw* for x86_64 architecure

[Brian Dessent]

NightStrike wrote:

> I think the FAQ entry I quoted makes it clear that they have settled
> on "mingw" as the platform name.  How can we confirm this and move on
> so that "mingw" becomes the accepted target?  Is there someone to
> contact from the mingw community?  The link is here:
> http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-what

No, the FAQ is talking about the project name.  That's not the same as
the canonical host triplet.  As pointed out already, the canonical
triplet for the regular, bog standard 32 bit toolchain, as reported by
GNU config.guess for about the last decade, is "i686-pc-mingw32".  If
you want to rename it to just "i686-pc-mingw" then that's fine and
logical choice but it is a huge change that will require extensive
modifications; many configure scripts will need to be updated because it
has been common usage for many years to match *-mingw32-* or *mingw32*
or similar in autoconf macros, even today.  This is completely separate
from the notion of adding a new 64 bit target, other than the fact that
you might want to address them at the same time.

Brian