Re: Suggestion for the GCS

[Richard Stallman]

    |     conflicts in the dark corners, we also strongly discourage the support
    |     of
    | 
    |       ./configure MACHTYPE
    | 
    | This is the normal recommended way to invoke configure.
    | We will not desupport that, or even discourage it.
    | It should simply be equivalent to ./configure --build=MACHTYPE.

    Unfortunately, that's not the way people had understood the feature up
    to now.

What precisely is the difference?