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| author | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2023-05-11 15:51:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2023-07-19 10:37:40 +0200 |
| commit | 68b7bb1a062c6471b678d5488a71324e0486d405 (patch) | |
| tree | ce5bf7fc73063ab9b76b7e51a4cfb9b32b9951c7 /configure.ac | |
| parent | a8d5bb5e7e4400d89ff49ff00e7b5634b24834c3 (diff) | |
add information on the system type string
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index bb3f92e4d..26df39d54 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config) AC_PROG_SED -# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux"). +# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux"): +# https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Canonicalizing.html#index-AC_005fCANONICAL_005fHOST-1 +# The inital value is produced by the `config.guess` script: +# https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.guess +# It has the following form, which is not documented anywhere: +# <cpu>-<vendor>-<os>[<version>][-<abi>] AC_CANONICAL_HOST AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name]) |