RE: --build and --host

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Corsepius [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:57 PM
> To: Steve M. Robbins
> Cc: GNU autoconf Mailing List
> Subject: Re: --build and --host
> 

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>  
> > So, we really just wanted to know which is the truth?
> 
> None and all of this is true :).
> 
> The only thing that currently can be relied upon is 
> * --host=TARGET --build=TARGET to mean native building 
> * --build alone also meaning native building.

Here, and I'm also quite a bit used to cross-compilation, I always start
configure through a script that guess itself if I am cross-compiling or
native-compiling. In the former case i pass "--build=BUILD --host=HOST",
with BUILD != HOST; in the latter I only pass --build=BUILD (to be sure of
the build_alias).

After quite time trying to understand how scripts worked it appears to be
quite a safe setting.

HTH

        Bernard

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