On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:50:31PM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 8:33 AM > > To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.lin...@pantheon.tech> > > Cc: bruce.richard...@intel.com; ruifeng.w...@arm.com; > > honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com; phil.y...@arm.com; > > vcchu...@amazon.com; dharmik.thak...@arm.com; jerinjac...@gmail.com; > > hemant.agra...@nxp.com; ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com; > > ferruh.yi...@intel.com; dev@dpdk.org > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 01/14] build: alias default build as > > generic > > > > 13/11/2020 15:31, Juraj Linkeš: > > > The current machine='default' build name is not descriptive. The > > > actual default build is machine='native'. Add an alternative string > > > which does the same build and better describes what we're building: > > > machine='generic'. Leave machine='default' for backwards compatibility. > > > > What? > > > > "generic" means... nothing. > > > > An absence of anything means nothing. Generic means "characteristic of or > relating to a class or group of things; not specific", which is pretty much > what we're looking for. > > > "default" should be the most common set of options to make a build work > > everywhere. > > What we want is a value of machine that would "be the most common set of > options to make a build work everywhere" and using the above definition of > generic, it fits very well. > The reason I said the actual default build is machine='native' is because > that's how the machine option is defined in meson_options.txt. It follows > from what default actually means - "a preselected option adopted by a > computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the > user or programmer". Default then means no user input, which means > machine='native', which means the default build is the default build. > > What ""default" should mean" looks like an attempt at redefining what the > word actually means and leads to confusion, in my experience. Hence an > attempt to remove the potential ambiguity. >
I would tend to agree that "generic" is probably a better term than "default" for what we use it for here in the config. /Bruce
