Re: [PATCH 1/2] git version --build-options: report the build platform, too

> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> @@ -413,6 +414,7 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>>
>>>>      if (build_options) {
>>>>              printf("sizeof-long: %d\n", (int)sizeof(long));
>>>> +            printf("machine: %s\n", build_platform);
>>>
>>> Can this use GIT_BUILD_PLATFORM directly instead of going via the indirection
>>> of a mutable static string?  That is, something like
>>>
>>>               printf("machine: %s\n", GIT_BUILD_PLATFORM);
>>
>> Good point.  And if this is externally identified as "machine",
>> probably the macro should also use the same word, not "platform".
>> We can go either way, as long as we are consistent, though.
>
> In Autoconf parlance, this would be called "host architecture" (GIT_HOST_ARCH).