From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k42zokjs.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:21 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> The patch reuses config.sub to canonicalize the arguments, but this
> introduces a build dependency on autotools and probably worse, it uses
> autotools internals and the path to config.sub has to be hardcoded.
>
> Since this might be not desirable we might also just drop the code
> that parses the --host and --build options since we're not using them
> anyway.
The second solution sounds better to me. The only issue we might
encounter is dealing with multi-arch installation properly. But I guess
we don't do that now anyway, so no real loss.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-03 16:40 [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform Justus Winter
2012-03-03 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add GNU as a valid platform Justus Winter
2012-03-03 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use autotools config.sub for --host and --build parsing Justus Winter
2012-03-05 2:20 ` David Bremner [this message]
2012-03-05 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add GNU as a valid platform Justus Winter
2012-03-05 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] Do not try to parse the options for --build and --host arguments Justus Winter
2012-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add GNU as a valid platform David Bremner
2012-03-20 11:20 ` David Bremner
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