[Glade-devel] glade configure.ac patch

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:
> ?Forwarding this on list ...
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:18 AM
> > Subject: glade configure.ac patch
> > To: tvb at gnome.org
> >
> > Hi Tristan,
> >
> > I am mailing you directly, because I couldn't find the right mailing
> > list for glade and you just released a 3.8.1 stable release.
> >
> > Attached is a patch for configure to use AC_CANONICAL_HOST. (in master
> > _SYSTEM is already changed to _TARGET, but it also should be _HOST)
> > For a rationale, please see
> > http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/autoconf/canonical.html
>
> ??Can you clarify for me what this will change ?
>
> ??Currently from reading this I think it should probably be _TARGET, not _HOST.

To be fair, _HOST looks like it's right for "just about anything"..
I'm more curious
about what is the justification for this change, why do you for
instance want this change ?

Would changing _TARGET to _HOST mean that you can no longer
cross-compile Glade ?


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> ??Cheers,
> ??? ? ? -Tristan