On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

: "host" from "config.guess" gets embedded into config.cache, for
: subsequent runs, but that doesn't help if it gets it wrong in the first
: place. The "unknown" does get placed into the files on a virgin run.

The new version, mknative, forcibly overrides the host with a --host=
switch.

: Where is value to "--host" supposed to come from? To try to get it from
: bsd.own.mk is really awkward (see my broken submission to PR 15514); it
: would be easier to simply elide the vendor and version number in
: toolchain2netbsd directly.

In mknative, the host value comes from ${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM} in a valid
$TOOLDIR toolchain build.  This is extracted by going through "make" first,
which knows how to identify the target platform.

: > (We use --host explicitly, since our ${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM} omits the OS
: > version number, and the omission of the vendor field is simply a convenience
: > in that case.)
:
: I see. Then "pkgsrc" on current is really messed up:

No, pkgsrc is correct.  It sets the GNU platform name to omit the version
number, just as I said above, and omits "unknown" as a convenience.

: The a.out build, on ports that haven't switched yet, doesn't use any of
: the same files? Won't matter soon, hopefully.

Correct.  a.out uses the old toolchain.

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