On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 15:54:44 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Would it be better if I changed that to say the flags are misleading, or if >> I reverted it back to legacy in that case? (Since that seems to be the >> primary concern with using them) > > As the build documentation says, the standard autoconf tripled was created > for building Canadian cross compilers (i.e. cross-compiling a > cross-compiler). This means that they use "host" for what we call "target", > and they use "target" for something that is not relevant for us. This caused > a lot of confusion early on when OpenJDK started using autoconf. > > If you know what you are doing, there's nothing inherently *wrong* with using > the autoconf triplet. It's just confusing, due to the name clash of "target". > > If you think this is not clear enough from the documenation and need to add > something to the warnings printed by the configure wrapper, sure, go ahead > and add a line about how this can be confusing. > > But it is not unsafe. Alright, will change accordingly, thanks for the review ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7656
