[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17133 - viric - in nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development: interpreters/perl-5.10 libraries/glibc-2.9

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Llus Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> --- nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/default.nix	2009-09-14 20:13:08 UTC (rev 17132)
> +++ nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/default.nix	2009-09-14 20:13:19 UTC (rev 17133)

[...]

>      "--host=arm-linux-gnueabi"
>      "--build=arm-linux-gnueabi"

Why is this needed?  I thought glibc would use the current system type
by default.

Thanks,
Ludo’.