Update descriptions for ${host} and ${target} to reflect that they are now

canonical triples, not the original user entries.
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Roland Pesch
1992-08-13 23:31:53 +00:00
parent c8c7e0bf25
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@ -1013,12 +1013,19 @@ same Makefile fragments, and the same @code{configure.in}.
@end defvar @end defvar
@defvar{host} @defvar{host}
Contains the name that the user entered for the host. Since many things Contains the full configuration name (generated by the script
that the user could enter would map to the same output from @file{config.sub} from the name that the user entered) for the host.
@code{config.sub}, this variable is innappropriate to use for picking This is a three-part name of the form
available configurations. For that, use @code{host_cpu},
@code{host_vendor}, and/or @code{host_os}. This variable is useful, @example
however, for error messages. @var{cpu}-@var{vendor}-@var{os}
@end example
@noindent
There are separate variables @code{host_cpu}, @code{host_vendor}, and
@code{host_os} that you can use to test each of the three parts; this
variable is useful, however, for error messages, and for testing
combinations of the three components.
@end defvar @end defvar
@defvar{host_cpu} @defvar{host_cpu}
@ -1044,12 +1051,19 @@ host as returned by @file{config.sub}.
@end defvar @end defvar
@defvar{target} @defvar{target}
Contains the name that the user entered for the target. Since Contains the full configuration name (generated by the script
many things that the user could enter would map to the same canonical @file{config.sub} from the name that the user entered) for the target.
triple, this variable is innappropriate to use for picking available This is a three-part name of the form
configurations. For that, use @code{target_cpu}, @code{target_vendor},
and/or @code{target_os}. This variable is useful, however, for error @example
messages. @var{cpu}-@var{vendor}-@var{os}
@end example
@noindent
There are separate variables @code{target_cpu}, @code{target_vendor}, and
@code{target_os} that you can use to test each of the three parts; this
variable is useful, however, for error messages, and for testing
combinations of the three components.
@end defvar @end defvar
@defvar{target_cpu} @defvar{target_cpu}