It's indeed a weird and confused mess. I think some of it is just an ancient
misunderstanding on how the autofoo build/host/target mean to begin with
adopted to rpm lingo, but then the semantics within autoconf have changed over
time too (see
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation.html#Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation).
And along the road, people have tweaked the rpm side semantics to the point
that nobody knows what it all means, how it should work and consequently nobody
including myself dares to touch it.
It'd be a good thing to have this sanitized, if we can find brave enough people
to tackle it...
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