On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:57, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> It's tricky; --target is != --system: --target is a cross-build. IOW, > >> --system => (%current-system), --target => (%current-target-system). [..] > Yeah, this can be confusing. The target is a triplet > (https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html), > e.g. i586-pc-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; system is specified by the > platform, or interpreter name; see e.g. gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm: > glibc-dynamic-linker for a list of platforms. Ah ok! Sorry, you already told me: --target != --system. Just previously. Well, the Zen of Python (python -c 'import this') seems appropriate here: "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch". :-) Even if it is only inherited from autoconf. :-) Cheers, simon