[pacman-dev] Remove CHOST from makepkg.conf

Alexander Baldeck kth5 at archlinuxppc.org
Mon Jul 2 18:28:06 EDT 2007


Andrew Fyfe wrote:
> Are there any objections to removing CHOST from makepkg.conf?
> 
> It's never seen by package Makefiles as it's not exported, and as a 
> general rule it's a BAD idea to mess with CHOST.
> 
> If there's no objections I'll do up a patch.
> 
> Andrew

CHOST is a good idea to have if you are on a i686-pc-linux-gnu with a 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu machine. It will go and build stuff with 
x86_64_pc-linux-gnu if not forced by using --target to most configures.

Cheers,

-Y




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