Re: renaming vars to indicate target

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi Warren,

>>> "Warren" == Warren Turkal <address@hidden> writes:

 Warren> I know that I am not a regular contributor or anything,
 Warren> but could some of you look at the following patch and
 Warren> see if the variable renames are reasonable.
 Warren> I am trying to add support for host compiled utility
 Warren> binaries that are used during a build. 
 Warren> The following patch attempts to rename all the current
 Warren> arch dependent language attributes to something that
 Warren> more appropriately indicates that the work on the
 Warren> target architecture. I plan to add corresponding host
 Warren> variables for the host arch also. 

Seems you shifted the vocabulary.  In the auto* jargon:

BUILD  = the system on which the package is being configured 
         and compiled

HOST   = the system on which the package will run

TARGET = the system for which any compiler tool built by the
         package will produce code

Automake currently outputs rules to compile programs that will
run on HOST.  So the variables could be called host_something.

What you want to introduce are compilation rules for the BUILD arch.

I don't think we have to support compilation to TARGET.

 Warren> I know that this will need support in autoconf also,
 Warren> but I think this is the right place to start.

What's your plan?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz