Hi Eric,
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 04:19:25PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > 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:
> > >>> 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).
>
> Dscho, when you re-roll, perhaps replace the current patch with the
> one below which determines the CPU type automatically rather than
> having to manually maintain and augment a bunch of #ifdefs in help.h.
Will do!
Ciao,
Dscho
