On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 07:48:37PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:58:34PM -0300, Leandro Santi wrote: > > A quick look at build.sh shows that one of the first things that > > needs to be done is to map the MACHINE name to the CPU architecture > > name, i.e. MACHINE_ARCH. I noticed that some ports set > > MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH, but some others don't. Which leads me to the > > following: what are the guidelines for choosing these names? > > If reasonably possible, use MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH=whatever config.guess > uses for the platform. A lot of the different MACHINE values are due to > historical reasons annd wouldn't happen again.
I think keeping evb* for boards makes sense, though. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
