Re: MACHINE and "alias"

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:14:31PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
 > It's been a while since build.sh started providing "alias" - a unique,
 > filesystem-safe single string that corresponds to a unique pair of
 > MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH.  For build tests, I use "alias" if defined,
 > otherwise MACHINE.  This works, but a bit inconvenient because this
 > "alias or MACHINE" concept has no official name.
 > 
 > How about calling this MACHINE_ALIAS?

I don't think the world will end if you call it "machine", but if you
want something else, maybe "MACHINE_SPEC"?

The problem with MACHINE_ALIAS is that it sounds like it's
*exclusively* an alias, which isn't what you want...

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David A. Holland
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