[project @ 2003-09-11 10:35:28 by simonmar]

When setting TARGETPLATFORM, we should also set foo_TARGET_ARCH,
bar_TARGET_OS, etc.

diff --git a/docs/building/building.sgml b/docs/building/building.sgml
index 4d25aa2..faeec72 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/building/building.sgml
+++ b/docs/building/building.sgml
@@ -3829,7 +3829,13 @@ GhcStage2HcOpts = -O -fvia-C -keep-hc-files
              <itemizedlist>
                <listitem>
                  <para>change <literal>TARGETPLATFORM</literal>
-                  appropriately.</para>
+                  appropriately, and set the variables involving
+                  <literal>TARGET</literal> to the correct values for
+                  the target platform.  This step is necessary because
+                  currently <literal>configure</literal> doesn't cope
+                  with specifying different values for the
+                  <literal>--host</literal> and
+                  <literal>--target</literal> flags.</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                  <para>copy <literal>LeadingUnderscore</literal>
@@ -3837,7 +3843,7 @@ GhcStage2HcOpts = -O -fvia-C -keep-hc-files
                </listitem>
              </itemizedlist>
            </listitem>
-           
+
            <listitem>
              <para>Copy
              <filename><replaceable>T</replaceable>/ghc/includes/config.h</filename>