On 02/03/2010 10:05 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Panu Matilainen (pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org) said:
>>> %{_host} is set by the rpm package in the macros file, %{_build} defaults
>>> to the value of %{_host}. %{_target_platform} comes from --target on
>>> the command line, plus the usual vendor/OS bits
>>>
>>> --target is what is set by rpm/mock. I think it defaults to %{_host}
>>> if it's not otherwise specified, but we specify it when building for
i686,
>>> as we could theoretically still build i386 packages.
>>
>> Yup, and all wonderfully mixed up - rpm's idea of --target is something
>> completely different from what auto*foo from this century thinks of it.
>> Dunno if it ever was really valid but certainly not anymore.
>>
>> rpm>= 4.8.0 no longer sets the --target on %configure but that's been
>> masked by the redhat-rpm-config version of %configure. That's been fixed
>> too as of today.
>
> Is either %_host or %_build set based on --target?
No... as there's no correct way to map rpm's --target to autotools
expectations.
There is: rpm's --target is autoconf's --host
except for packages which screw up with --build, --host, --target.
Ralf