[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 01/14] build: alias default build as generic

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Nov 16 08:32:56 CET 2020


13/11/2020 15:31, Juraj Linkeš:
> The current machine='default' build name is not descriptive. The actual
> default build is machine='native'. Add an alternative string which does
> the same build and better describes what we're building:
> machine='generic'. Leave machine='default' for backwards compatibility.

What?

"default" should be the most common set of options to make a build work everywhere.
"native" is the build machine.

"generic" means... nothing.





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