Hello Nick, many thanks for your response! Nick Bowler (2021/02/04 14:54 -0500): > Hi Sébastien, > > The purpose of canonicalization is not to find the toolchain. The user > specifies the actual name of the toolchain via the command-line > options. Which options is it that you have in mind to specify a toolchain? > Since your toolchain is installed with a non-canonical prefix if the > canonicalized name was used configure would not find the toolchain! In fact, it seems it's the _alias variants of variables which is used to find the toolchain. See the line I mentionned yesterday: test -n "$host_alias" && ac_tool_prefix=$host_alias- and which has been generated. > The reason to use the canonicalized names is for the scenario when you > want to write conditional code based on $host_os, $host_cpu, etc. > > If you are not writing code based on these split-out variables, it is > probably not needed to use AC_CANONICAL_xxx macros. Yes okay, thanks. We do have such code. Best wishes, Sébastien.
