[Glade-devel] glade configure.ac patch

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:
>  Forwarding this on list ...
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:18 AM
>> Subject: glade configure.ac patch
>> To: tvb at gnome.org
>>
>> Hi Tristan,
>>
>> I am mailing you directly, because I couldn't find the right mailing
>> list for glade and you just released a 3.8.1 stable release.
>>
>> Attached is a patch for configure to use AC_CANONICAL_HOST. (in master
>> _SYSTEM is already changed to _TARGET, but it also should be _HOST)
>> For a rationale, please see
>> http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/autoconf/canonical.html
>
>   Can you clarify for me what this will change ?
>
>   Currently from reading this I think it should probably be _TARGET, not _HOST.

To be fair, _HOST looks like it's right for "just about anything"..
I'm more curious
about what is the justification for this change, why do you for
instance want this change ?

Would changing _TARGET to _HOST mean that you can no longer
cross-compile Glade ?


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>   Cheers,
>         -Tristan
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