Re: autotools transition report: autotools+dejagnu vs phil in asteel cage match

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > | anywhere because We Don't Build For The Target, We Build For The Host.
> | > 
> | > I should have put a note on that in the doc long time ago -- at the time, I
> | > didn't feel that it was needed (I assumed I was the only who didn't know).
> | > It would have saved you some nighmarre.  The terminologies are
> | > "shifted" when it comes to libraries coming with the built compiler.  
> | 
> | Oh, we've known that for a long time.  The existing comment in configure.in
> | describing the shift was put there by me.
>
> ah, I wasn't aware there was a comment to that effect in configure.in.

It's a memorable one, too:

# You will slowly go insane if you do not grok the following fact:  when
# building v3 as part of the compiler, the top-level /target/ becomes the
# library's /host/.  `configure' then causes --target to default to --host,
# exactly like any other package using autoconf.  Therefore, 'target' and
# 'host' will always be the same.  This makes sense both for native and
# cross compilers, just think about it for a little while.  :-)



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