Re: patch for build.sh to guess native MACHINE_ARCH

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 05:17, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
> hi folks.
>
>
> anyone ever tried to run build.sh on a system like evbarm
> and it defaulted to "earm", even on arm64 systems?
>
> this simple patch makes build.sh guess MACHINE_ARCH with
> MACHINE, instead of then finding a default on the list.
>
> this only changes the behaviour when you run build.sh
> without any -m or -a option and it guesses from the local
> system.  with this patch, it will default to build for
> the native host.
>
> comments?

Thanks.

> .mrg.
>
>
> Index: build.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/build.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.331
> diff -p -u -r1.331 build.sh
> --- build.sh    25 Apr 2019 05:12:49 -0000      1.331
> +++ build.sh    30 Apr 2019 09:13:52 -0000
> @@ -1416,6 +1416,7 @@ parseoptions()
>                 [ "${uname_s}" = "NetBSD" ] ||
>                     bomb "MACHINE must be set, or -m must be used, for cross builds."
>                 MACHINE=${uname_m}
> +               MACHINE_ARCH=${uname_p}
>         fi
>         if $opt_m && ! $opt_a; then
>                 # Settings implied by the command line -m option