From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23383 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2001 05:06:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 22180 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 05:05:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 05:05:06 -0000 Received: from greed.delorie.com (cse.cygnus.com [205.180.230.236]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA06069; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBB526Z21534; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:02:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:08:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200112110502.fBB526Z21534@greed.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: jsturm@one-point.com CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Jeff Sturm on Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:01:46 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: mingw32 target broken [cygwin as well] [the saga continues] References: X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00574.txt.bz2 > > Yeah, that confuses people, but it does make sense. "host" is what > > you're building *for*. For target libraries, you're building for the > > --target, so $host is --target. > > That's how I understood it. But I looked in libstdc++-v3 and libjava... > the former has a configure.target script, the latter configure.host. So > that interpretation isn't uniform throughout GCC. I *told* you it confuses people ;-)