[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Cross build macro confusion (#1650)

[Panu Matilainen]

It's indeed a weird and confused mess. I think some of it is just an ancient misunderstanding on how the autofoo build/host/target mean to begin with adopted to rpm lingo, but then the semantics within autoconf have changed over time too (see https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation.html#Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation). And along the road, people have tweaked the rpm side semantics to the point that nobody knows what it all means, how it should work and consequently nobody including myself dares to touch it.

It'd be a good thing to have this sanitized, if we can find brave enough people to tackle it...

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