[Buildroot] [PATCH next 1/4] support/gnuconfig: update to 2019-05-28

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 28 May 2019 23:31:55 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

>  This variable is only used to pass --build arguments during configure, so we
> could use = instead of := and use the installed one from $(HOST_DIR).
> 
>  However, we can also completely remove it. There should never be any reason to
> pass --build to configure - especially if you're using *exactly* the same value
> as the default.

Yes: --build is autodetected by the configure script, by running
config.guess, and it will anyway be our config.guess, since we
overwrite the one provided by the package in a post-patch hook by our
config.guess.

> This was pulled in as part of a7e49eb2af which added 7000 lines
> of code. If there ever was any reason to do this, nobody remembers :-)

Indeed :)

>  Note that we still need it for libnspr because that uses $host for build, so we
> have to override the --host given by the configure commands, so we need to know
> what --host should be. But there we can definitely use the downloaded and
> installed config.guess.

Right.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to follow-up with a proposal.

Best regards,

Thomas
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