[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 25803] Use AC_CANONICAL_HOST instead of AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25803





------- Comment #3 from fridrich.strba at bluewin.ch  2009-05-14 14:32 PDT -------
Here, it is explained quite well, although, the naming is very
counter-intuitive: http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/configure_toc.html#TOC30
TARGET makes sense only if you are building cross-compiling tools, target is
there the system for which the tools generate code. This is not really useful
here, because the JIT compiler will compile the code for the system on which is
running. It is not in any sense a cross-compiling tool.
When you cross-compile webkit and you use the AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, the
autotools get confused and will assume that you are building cross-tools that
will run on SystemA and produce binaries for SystemA, and will prefix the
binaries with the SystemA's triplet. Like for mingw build
i686-pc-mingw32-jsc.exe. The binaries are the same because this happens on
install, but it is still annoying. 


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