[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49213] Please use $host_alias for canonical host (m4/acinclude.m4:2010)

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                 Summary: Please use $host_alias for canonical host
(m4/acinclude.m4:2010)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 28 Sep 2016 05:35:30 PM UTC
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.3
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Hi,

This problem is a little tricky, I'm not sure I understand it fully. However,
the requested change is hopefully sane enough anyway.

We have a package for Octave in pkgsrc, and it seems that our build tools
expect a pre-defined MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM to be used in various places.
This is passed value via --build normally, and is defined in configure as
$host_alias.

The guess used by Octave differs from what we use, and it caused a very tricky
build failure.

for linux, we seem to use x86_64-unknown-linux whereas octave's build guessed
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.

See the original discussion here:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2014/03/26/msg019464.html

I'm not sure what value $host has normally.

Thanks.




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