From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:17:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ2fPAJckgwmDSmhm7snoWWh307zWS0p2hr_YF1cY6oejw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6wobk5g.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:57, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> It's tricky; --target is != --system: --target is a cross-build. IOW,
> >> --system => (%current-system), --target => (%current-target-system).
[..]
> Yeah, this can be confusing. The target is a triplet
> (https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html),
> e.g. i586-pc-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; system is specified by the
> platform, or interpreter name; see e.g. gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:
> glibc-dynamic-linker for a list of platforms.
Ah ok! Sorry, you already told me: --target != --system. Just previously.
Well, the Zen of Python (python -c 'import this') seems appropriate
here: "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're
Dutch". :-) Even if it is only inherited from autoconf. :-)
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 13:34 [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-10-08 15:27 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2020-10-14 9:47 ` zimoun
2020-10-14 14:15 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-10-14 20:31 ` zimoun
2020-10-14 20:57 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-10-14 21:17 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-10-15 7:13 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
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