[erlang-bugs] Build fix for some architectures: x86_64 e.g. [resent]

[Mikael Pettersson]

Christian Faulhammer writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@REDACTED>:
 > 
 > > This is ambiguous. Please generate a standard patch
 > > that applies with 'patch -p1'.
 > 
 >  Better?

Better.

Now, could you please explain why this is needed?
I.e., why does gentoo need this change while (apparently)
everybody else Unix-like doesn't.

Presumably something special is going on either with
the TARGET thing or the export thing, but _what_?

(I'm not trying to be rude here; patches must IMO
be accompanied by technical explanations, otherwise
we lose track of why things are done in certain
ways.)

 > 
 > V-Li
 > 
 > -- 
 > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
 > <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
 > 
 > <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
 > --- /tmp/Makefile.in.orig	2007-12-13 22:01:34.000000000 +0100
 > +++ otp_src_R12B-0/Makefile.in	2007-12-13 22:01:44.000000000 +0100
 > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 >  MAKE    = @MAKE_PROG@
 >  
 >  # This should be set to the target "arch-vendor-os"
 > -TARGET  = @TARGET@
 > +export TARGET  = @TARGET@
 >  
 >  # A BSD compatible install program
 >  INSTALL         = @INSTALL@