Re: Guidelines for choosing MACHINE & MACHINE_ARCH?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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.

Joerg