From 01a7aa0a4d7314e2e007f04baf9f06f6ae52a5ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Ericson Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:05:31 -0400 Subject: Document and test env vars a bit better --- docs/markdown/howtox.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/markdown/howtox.md') 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 ``` -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 -- cgit v1.1