Re: Host settings for GNU in configure*?

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Svante Signell, le Thu 25 Aug 2011 10:58:43 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:48 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Thu 25 Aug 2011 10:20:44 +0200, a écrit :
> 
> > > 1) Where to find the specification resulting in i486-pc-gnu?
> > 
> > I don't understand the question. Why would you want that ?
> 
> Some packages are configured with i486-pc-gnu,

For instance?

> > > A common denominator of $host is
> > > 
> > > c) *-gnu*
> > 
> > This one: don't care the actual architecture, don't care the actual
> > version of GNU.
> 
> It is not unique if * means wildcard,

Yes, but that's the best we can do.

> > > 6) Are these only local to the rules file?
> > 
> > I don't understand the question. They are dpkg-architecture output,
> > that's all.
> 
> Yes, and they are used for logic in the rules (Makefile) right?, and not
> exported in any way to configure*/outside ?

When cross-compiling, it would be.

Samuel