On 25 Apr 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ian> Dying is definitely wrong. I am also inclined to vote against
> Ian> warnings.
>
> OK, then here is my revamped revamping. It does not include your
> suggestion for host != build => cross-compiling yet. I'd rather have
> this as a separate patch later, this one is already big enough (just
> adding cross_compilation=yes is not right).
>
> It does everything I said in the message to Tom, i.e.:
>
> - don't document --target etc. when the AC_CANONICAL_TARGET etc. is not
> used
>
> - change the defaults to
> 1. build ?= config.guess
> 2. host ?= build
> 3. target ?= host
Akim, I was with you up until this one. Why would you want to remove the
--host option? If I pass --host=CROSS-TRIPLE that should tell the system
that the host is different than the build so it is a cross compile, right?
> - remove the support of HOST on the command line, because it is
> incorrect to map this HOST to a virtual --host=HOST
>
> Akim
Mo Dejong
Red Hat Inc.
