On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:58:34PM -0300, Leandro Santi wrote: > A quick look at build.sh shows that one of the first things that > needs to be done is to map the MACHINE name to the CPU architecture > name, i.e. MACHINE_ARCH. I noticed that some ports set > MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH, but some others don't. Which leads me to the > following: what are the guidelines for choosing these names?
If reasonably possible, use MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH=whatever config.guess uses for the platform. A lot of the different MACHINE values are due to historical reasons annd wouldn't happen again. Joerg
