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Subject: Re: Which CHOST?
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2010/10/11 Eric Blake <eblake AT redhat DOT com>:
> On 10/11/2010 02:21 PM, Al wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> what is the current CHOST?
>
> I'm not sure what you meant by CHOST - it's not an environment variable t=
hat
> I'm familiar with. =A0Who expects it to be set? =A0Did you mean target tr=
iplet?
>

Hello Eric,

To correct myself, it seems $CHOST is not that Gentoo specific.

Have a look into the sources of zlib. You will find a usage example of
$CHOST in ./configure.

zlib is an interesting case, anyway. The default case of the unpatched
sources builds on Cygwin, but if you set the $CHOST correctly it runs
into a special CYGWIN case. It forgets to set $LDSHARED and the
Makefile breaks. Hence, you find a big patch for Cygwin.

Al

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