> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 8:33 AM > To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.lin...@pantheon.tech> > Cc: bruce.richard...@intel.com; ruifeng.w...@arm.com; > honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com; phil.y...@arm.com; > vcchu...@amazon.com; dharmik.thak...@arm.com; jerinjac...@gmail.com; > hemant.agra...@nxp.com; ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com; > ferruh.yi...@intel.com; dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 01/14] build: alias default build as > generic > > 13/11/2020 15:31, Juraj Linkeš: > > The current machine='default' build name is not descriptive. The > > actual default build is machine='native'. Add an alternative string > > which does the same build and better describes what we're building: > > machine='generic'. Leave machine='default' for backwards compatibility. > > What? > > "generic" means... nothing. >
An absence of anything means nothing. Generic means "characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific", which is pretty much what we're looking for. > "default" should be the most common set of options to make a build work > everywhere. What we want is a value of machine that would "be the most common set of options to make a build work everywhere" and using the above definition of generic, it fits very well. The reason I said the actual default build is machine='native' is because that's how the machine option is defined in meson_options.txt. It follows from what default actually means - "a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer". Default then means no user input, which means machine='native', which means the default build is the default build. What ""default" should mean" looks like an attempt at redefining what the word actually means and leads to confusion, in my experience. Hence an attempt to remove the potential ambiguity. > "native" is the build machine. > The other thing we want is a value for build machine and there's no need to change anything about that.
