> On Jan 20, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Alexander Shpilkin <ashpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > it appears to me that you misunderstand what these settings are doing. > (Sorry if I’m guessing wrong.) Both build and host are _triples_, that > is, of the form CPU-VENDOR-OS (or sometimes CPU-VENDOR-KERNEL-LIBC), > and anything else you can pass in the place of a triple is a convenient > abbreviation (expanded by code in `config.sub`, which, unlike the > Lovecraftian horror that is the generated `configure`, is completely > readable). In particular, it is a convenient abbreviation that does > not depend on the machine you’re using (i.e. `config.sub` does not > invoke or otherwise touch `config.guess`). > Hi Alex:
I was aware that I was supposed to feed a triple to the -build flag. Pragmatically, I noticed configure didn’t complain and that the Gforth built and passed tests when supplied only with x86_64. Since what I’m doing is essentially a hack, I didn’t feel too bad about it! It looks like maybe it is time for a maintenance release of Gforth. Hopefully, in that case, the need for such hacks will go away. Thanks, Craig
