From: Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 2000 01:06:14 -0300
On Apr 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alexandre> I don't see any reason to do it. I'd rather keep both
Alexandre> `--host=TRIPLET' and plain `TRIPLET'.
> The fact is that the two schemes were not equivalent. It is Ian who
> suggested twice that in these conditions, we should get rid of HOST
> as an argument.
But this could break existing scripts. If we're going to change the
meaning of HOST as an argument, let's make it equivalent to
--host=HOST, instead of no longer accepting it and, if both are
specified, warn and use the --host one.
What we are discussing will break existing scripts anyhow. We are
discussing having --host=HOST imply cross-compilation from the result
of `config.guess'. That is not the old meaning of `configure HOST'.
I think it would be better to explicitly break `configure HOST' than
to permit it to silently fail.
Ian
