Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] [patch] experiment of porting libelf to Debian

[Joseph K. <jk...@us...>]

> >   % pmake -V unix
> >   We run NetBSD.
> > 
> >   % freebsd-make -V unix
> >   We run FreeBSD, not UNIX.
> 
> I filed these as #493839 (pmake) and #493841 (freebsd5-buildutils) in Debian.
> Do we intend to use the output of these in building libelf?

Yes, we use the contents of the 'unix' make(1) variable to determine
the *target* OS in a cross-build that libelf is being built for.

More info in README.build.

Koshy