Re: Guidelines for choosing MACHINE & MACHINE_ARCH?

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

> On May 1, 2015, at 10:53 AM, David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 07:48:37PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:58:34PM -0300, Leandro Santi wrote:
>>> A quick look at build.sh shows that one of the first things that
>>> needs to be done is to map the MACHINE name to the CPU architecture
>>> name, i.e. MACHINE_ARCH. I noticed that some ports set
>>> MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH, but some others don't. Which leads me to the
>>> following: what are the guidelines for choosing these names?
>> 
>> If reasonably possible, use MACHINE=MACHINE_ARCH=whatever config.guess
>> uses for the platform. A lot of the different MACHINE values are due to
>> historical reasons annd wouldn't happen again.
> 
> I think keeping evb* for boards makes sense, though.

I agree.  MACHINE=evbavr32 and MACHINE_ARCH=avr32 make the most sense.