Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 06:28:40 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc Message-ID: <199802201928.GAA06448@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199802201730.KAA13444@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Feb 20, 98 10:30:35 am"
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Nate Williams wrote: > > Log: > > Change MACHINE references to MACHINE_ARCH. > > Why is this being done? It's the same thing with a different name, no? > I thought it was silly when NetBSD did it initially, and it's no less > silly now. When you build on a machine that shares a processor with other machines, MACHINE_ARCH reflects the processor and MACHINE reflects the system. I've been building with MACHINE_ARCH=m68k and MACHINE=mvme68k to check that my makefile changes are reasonably portable. For alpha, like i386 MACHINE is the same as MACHINE_ARCH, though. And I still think that PC98 should be a MACHINE, leaving MACHINE_ARCH=i386, instead of the special case of MACHINE_PC98 that is not built into make like MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH are. Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137
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