Re: A patch for the toplevel Makefile

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>]

On May 18, 2000, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:52:41PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not sure I understand the role of $build in this test.  Why does
>> it make any difference if its equal to host or not?
>> 

> If $build != $host, it must be the canadian cross compile. In that
> case, we won't run the compiler we just build. So it is not an
> issue.

Would you mind adding this note as a comment?  I'm sure I'm not the
only one who'd stare at that code and try to figure out what the heck
it's supposed to do :-)

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