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Re: building native tools in a cross-compile environment
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org, autoconf at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:38:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: building native tools in a cross-compile environment
- References: <47179.1024454201@dog.pfcs.com>
- Reply-to: Earnie Boyd <autoconf at gnu dot org>
Harlan Stenn wrote:
>
> I've been looking thru the docs and I I haven't found a way to do the
> following.
>
> I am using automake and autoconf.
>
> I am assuming:
>
> - "build" means the arch of the build machine
> - "host" the arch of the place where built stuff gets run
>
I would define "target" as you have "host" defined. I would define
- "host" the arch of the tools that create binaries for target.
Therefore if I have --host=foo --build=bar --target=baz then I'm using
bar to build binaries for foo that create binaries for baz.
Earnie.