From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FjhcL-0002zT-Bq for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:05:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjhcJ-0002ye-Jb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:04:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjhcH-0002y0-Si for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:04:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjhcH-0002xc-OH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:04:57 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FjhhE-0005gW-J4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 15:10:04 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5DA3CAA659C for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 22:37:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D5C3CAA659B for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 22:37:26 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:04:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605262104.55720.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.431376, version=0.17.2 Subject: configure host and target X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:04:59 -0000 According to a suggestion by an autoconf developer, I think we should change the build system in this way: - Use "host" to represent an environment in which utilities (tools) run. This is a natural interpretation of the meaning of "host" in autoconf. - Use "target" to represent a native environment in which the grub kernel and modules run. This is not very natural, but a bit easier to understand. - Use CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. for the "host". This is more intuitive. - Use TARGET_CPPFLAGS, TARGET_CFLAGS, etc. for the "target". Usually, the user does not need to tweak these flags manually, so they are not necessary to be very intuitive. If there is no objection, I will work on this issue very soon. Okuji