Hello! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> On Sun 20 Mar 2011 22:31, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Thus ‘%target-type’ would be inappropriate IMO because the target could >> be chosen at run-time and it could be anything. >> >> ‘guile-tools compile --target=TRIPLET’ would be fine with me. > > I see. Yes that sounds fine; perhaps we could have %target-type, but > have it be a fluid. Does that make sense? Yes, agreed. At some point there will have to be a triplet → arch → endianness conversion. I’d rather have that conversion occur as close to the UI as possible—i.e., close to ‘scripts/compile.scm’—rather than deep down in (system base compile) because the triplet string is really a UI notion IMO. Thanks, Ludo’.