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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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