On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> @@ -413,6 +414,7 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>>
>>>> if (build_options) {
>>>> printf("sizeof-long: %d\n", (int)sizeof(long));
>>>> + printf("machine: %s\n", build_platform);
>>>
>>> Can this use GIT_BUILD_PLATFORM directly instead of going via the indirection
>>> of a mutable static string? That is, something like
>>>
>>> printf("machine: %s\n", GIT_BUILD_PLATFORM);
>>
>> Good point. And if this is externally identified as "machine",
>> probably the macro should also use the same word, not "platform".
>> We can go either way, as long as we are consistent, though.
>
> In Autoconf parlance, this would be called "host architecture" (GIT_HOST_ARCH).
My bad: "host cpu", rather (GIT_HOST_CPU).
