Re: building native tools in a cross-compile environment

[Earnie Boyd]

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.