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authorValentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>2023-05-31 03:48:05 +0200
committerValentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>2023-07-19 10:37:40 +0200
commitc8a42039eae4c046297517b67a3ce43685d3e756 (patch)
tree0313914112e82bdea358b17316449fb4815ba09d /configure.ac
parent0751c1bfc6375ffbe94e90cfcfdb987e8b286f2e (diff)
move docs of the current system to the system setting
add information what happens when Nix itself is cross-compiled
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 26df39d54..cc7009859 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ AC_PROG_SED
# 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>]
+# If `./configure` is passed any of the `--host`, `--build`, `--target` options, the value comes from `config.sub` instead:
+# https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.sub
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name])