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Re: [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes
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zimoun |
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Re: [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes |
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Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:17:54 +0200 |
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:57, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> It's tricky; --target is != --system: --target is a cross-build. IOW,
> >> --system => (%current-system), --target => (%current-target-system).
[..]
> Yeah, this can be confusing. The target is a triplet
> (https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html),
> e.g. i586-pc-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; system is specified by the
> platform, or interpreter name; see e.g. gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:
> glibc-dynamic-linker for a list of platforms.
Ah ok! Sorry, you already told me: --target != --system. Just previously.
Well, the Zen of Python (python -c 'import this') seems appropriate
here: "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're
Dutch". :-) Even if it is only inherited from autoconf. :-)
Cheers,
simon