Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:55:44 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, sprice@hiwaay.net, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ports collection? Message-ID: <199812281055.VAA14726@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812281025.CAA19497@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Dec 28, 98 02:25:18 am"
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * ${MACHINE_ARCH} seems to be a make built-in variable.
>
> Oh, I see. It's a 3.0-only thing, that's why I didn't see it at home.
> (I wish they'd put it in the make manpage though.)
>
> Do you know why they are using MACHINE_ARCH and not MACHINE?
For example:
MACHINE_ARCH=m68k MACHINE=mvme68k
or in FreeBSD:
MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=pc98
MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=i386
MACHINE_ARCH=alpha MACHINE=alpha
Note that non-i386 versions of `make' have MACHINE_ARCH in-built. For
i386, MACHINE_ARCH isn't actually defined in `make'.
--
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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