[oe] [PATCH 2/2] Renamed prefix_native, bindir_native, etc using camelCaps

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 18:49 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> On 18-03-10 18:29, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 04:37 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 18 March 2010 02:31:11 Douglas Royds wrote:
>> >>>     - Avoids clashing with the machine override when MACHINE=native
>> >>>     - bindir_cross similarly renamed for consistency
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for that much work. I think we established the usage of '-' instead
>> >> of '_' to avoid clashes with the override detection though.
>> >
>> > I just noticed this problem. It makes me very very nervous to introduce
>> > yet another variable naming convention, particularly one we don't use
>> > anywhere else :/.
>> >
>> > Might it be simpler to rename the native machine? Using "native" in the
>> > override namespace is asking for trouble :(.
>>
>> rename it to 'host'?



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> Its still not a good name to have in overrides. We really need something
> meaningful but not generic e.g. "localmachine"

yeah I would vote for renaming the machine. Some overrides should be
respected just for
the level of intrusion they have.

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> Cheers,
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> Richard
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