Re: renaming vars to indicate target

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Warren Turkal wrote:
| Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
|>BUILD  = the system on which the package is being configured
|>         and compiled
|>
|>HOST   = the system on which the package will run
|>
|>TARGET = the system for which any compiler tool built by the
|>         package will produce code
|
| I honestly don't understand what target is for.

If you want to build a gcc that will run on windows but generate code for some
embedded system, and you are building on linux:

~    build = linux; host = windows; target = embedded

Only useful for compiler toolchains and the ilk really.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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