On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:28:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > It is utterly non-obvious what the BUILD and HOST architectures mean. [..] > Browsing the relevant documentation (debian-policy, man dpkg, ...), > I found no place that disambiguates those. Is `man dpkg-architecture' what you are looking for? > Could you please reword section 4.9 to mention that BUILD is the one you > host the build on, and HOST the one your build for? The current version > just says that HOST is the host machine, and BUILD is the build machine, > which is just a waste of words. Might be good to have it more clearly here too. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #244: Your cat tried to eat the mouse.
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