Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:17:08PM CEST: > I find it strange that you tie $host matching *winnt* to > Parity/MSVC. That seems to be different from the intentions of > $host ($host is to me a system type, not a toolchain).
With $host, things are not as black and white as you portray it. For example, the different libc's on Linux x86 make for different values of $host. > I would > argue that for Parity, $build should be *-interix* (since > you are using Interix to drive the scripts, IIUC), and $host > should be *-mingw*. I.e. what you are really doing is something > that is in fact cross-compilation (with the quirk that you > happen to be able to run the resulting binaries of course). Hmm. Such questions are best taken to the maintainer of config.{guess,sub}, *after* the exact semantics are jotted down. The most important issue with naming things is that they are named *consistently*, not primarily *how* they are named. Anyway, any review will have to wait a bit longer. Cheers, Ralf