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

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7656

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