Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:17:08PM CEST:
> I find it strange that you tie $host matching *winnt* to
> Parity/MSVC. That seems to be different from the intentions of
> $host ($host is to me a system type, not a toolchain).

With $host, things are not as black and white as you portray it.
For example, the different libc's on Linux x86 make for different
values of $host.

> I would
> argue that for Parity, $build should be *-interix* (since
> you are using Interix to drive the scripts, IIUC), and $host
> should be *-mingw*. I.e. what you are really doing is something
> that is in fact cross-compilation (with the quirk that you
> happen to be able to run the resulting binaries of course).

Hmm.  Such questions are best taken to the maintainer of
config.{guess,sub}, *after* the exact semantics are jotted down.
The most important issue with naming things is that they are named
*consistently*, not primarily *how* they are named.

Anyway, any review will have to wait a bit longer.

Cheers,
Ralf