Sorry for the blank reply, I misclicked. > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:27 AM Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > checking host system type... aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu > > checking target system type... aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu > > > > I am okay with the first line but to absolutely not understandthe second > > and third line. Why do the host and system types contain an "unknown" > > string? GNU canonical system identifiers are defined as 3- or 4-tuples: either CPU-COMPANY-OS or CPU-COMPANY-KERNEL-LIBC. 'pc' and 'unknown' are both filler words inserted in the COMPANY field when config.sub has nothing more meaningful to put there. The COMPANY field was more useful many years ago, when lots of different Unix vendors were putting out workstations based on the MC68020 -- 'm68k-apollo-sysv' and 'm68k-bull-sysv' for instance are distinguished only by COMPANY. Nowadays it's pretty much vestigial, but we have to keep it around for compatibility with all the logic that expects there to be at least three dash-separated fields in $host_alias. > > Since I gave the --host=aarch64-linux-gnu arguemnt, I expected this to > > be the canonical system type. And also, I thought the target system type > > would default to the user-provided host system type, which does not seem > > to be the case. `aarch64-linux-gnu` is a *non-canonical* shorthand system identifier. $host_alias is always set to the *canonical* system identifier, which is computed from what you give as the argument to --host by passing it through `config.sub`. You did not give a --target option, so $target_alias defaults to $host_alias, and both are in canonical form. In summary, everything is working as intended. You do not need to change how you are running configure. (You do, however, need to make sure that any `case $host_alias in ... esac` blocks in your configure script expect $host_alias to be in canonical form, e.g. `case $host_alias in (aarch64-linux-gnu) ... ;; esac` will never execute the ... code, it needs to be (aarch64-*-linux-gnu) instead.) zw
