Matthew Dillon wrote:
Part of the problem is that I only separated the code into two
physical pieces (cpu and machine architectures) when I should have
separated it into three (cpu, machine, and platform). At the time I
felt three was too many. I even created three built-in MAKE variables,
I just named them badly and didn't go far enough.
where is the difference between platform and machine?
can't we use:
cpu == arch (== machine?):
- i386
- amd64
platform:
- i386
- amd64
- vkernel
and have everything covered?
does it *have* to be a different name for platform and cpu? i mean, that's two
different namespaces, i do not see any harm using i386 as a platform name. my
goal is to keep things as easy as possible. a cross-build should just require
TARGET_ARCH=amd64, or fwiw, TARGET_PLATFORM=vkernel. but the nomenclature
should be sensible and follow POLA.
cheers
simon
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