Re: [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes

[zimoun]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:57, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:

> >> It's tricky; --target is != --system: --target is a cross-build.  IOW,
> >> --system => (%current-system), --target => (%current-target-system).

[..]

> Yeah, this can be confusing.  The target is a triplet
> (https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html),
> e.g.  i586-pc-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; system is specified by the
> platform, or interpreter name; see e.g. gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:
> glibc-dynamic-linker for a list of platforms.

Ah ok!  Sorry, you already told me: --target != --system.  Just previously.

Well, the Zen of Python (python -c 'import this') seems appropriate
here: "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're
Dutch".  :-) Even if it is only inherited from autoconf. :-)

Cheers,
simon