Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> `--host=HOST-TYPE'
>> the type of system on which the package will run. By default it
>> is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the
>> cross-compilation mode.
>> There's a long archived discussion on the Autoconf mailing list about it.
> Is there a one-sentence summary of the reason for the change?
It's been a while, and I'm not sure that I completely followed the
discussion and all of the arguments. However, if I were to hazard an
attempt, I'd say:
The new behavior is easier to explain, easier for humans to predict
in the presence of auto-generated arguments to --host and --build,
and easier to implement in Autoconf.
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