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| author | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2020-03-19 18:05:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2022-04-03 10:58:03 -0700 |
| commit | 01a7aa0a4d7314e2e007f04baf9f06f6ae52a5ec (patch) | |
| tree | 57f8dd83729eca523afef34d32686d720e0e1a5f /docs | |
| parent | 4dd6cb846900bf827c257f830d54d9fd0932743e (diff) | |
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Document and test env vars a bit better
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/howtox.md b/docs/markdown/howtox.md index 9945a6c..651f089 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/howtox.md +++ b/docs/markdown/howtox.md @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ When first running Meson, set it in an environment variable. $ CC=mycc meson <options> ``` -Note that environment variables like `CC` only works in native builds. -The `CC` refers to the compiler for the host platform, that is the -compiler used to compile programs that run on the machine we will -eventually install the project on. The compiler used to build things -that run on the machine we do the building can be specified with -`CC_FOR_BUILD`. You can use it in cross builds. +Note that environment variables like `CC` only refer to the host +platform in cross builds. That is, `CC` refers to the compiler used to +compile programs that run on the machine we will eventually install the +project on. The compiler used to build things that run on the machine we +do the building can be specified with `CC_FOR_BUILD`. You can use it in +cross builds. Note that environment variables are never the idiomatic way to do anything with Meson, however. It is better to use the native and cross |