Re: list of --host options

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hello Benoit,
>
> * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:35:38PM CEST:
> > On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
> >
> > > By the way, I have a question to the list, AC_CANONICAL_HOST implies
> > > AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, maybe this should be mentionned in the  
> > > documentation?
> >
> > Proposed (trivial) patch attached.
>
> Why is the analogous relation with AC_CANONICAL_TARGET not documented
> in the patch?
>
> But also, why do we want to document this at all?  It's not that  
> having
> the user specify all of these macros is a disadvantage, no?  There are
> lots of macro dependencies we (consciously) chose not to document, and
> while maybe not for this specific one, I also don't see a compelling
> reason to do otherwise here; but I certainly don't have a strong  
> opinion
> at all.

Because you can be surprised to see:

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
checking build system type... (cached) i386-apple-darwin8.10.1

even though it doesn't harm.  But if you want to keep this as an  
internal detail, fair enough.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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