[bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] Add --list-systems and --list-targets options.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Mathieu Othacehe schreef op za 07-05-2022 om 18:11 [+0200]:
>> * gnu/platform.scm (platform-modules, systems, targets,
>> lookup-platform-by-system, lookup-platform-by-target,
>> lookup-platform-by-target-or-system
>> platform-system->target,
>> platform-target->system): New procedures.
>> (%platforms): New variable.
>> [...]
>
> Food for later: I'm wondering if it would make sense to (long term)
> let %current-system/%current-target-system be a <platform> record
> and eliminate nix-system->gnu-triplet, gnu-triplet->nix-system in
> favour of platform-target & platform-system.  That could avoid the
> problem of forgetting that targets and nix systems have different
> formats, making a class of cross-compilation bugs less likely ...

That sounds like a good idea to me.  I was bit by that in the past,
probably not for the last time.

Maxim