Re: [avr-chat] --target vs. --host when building AVR toolchain?

[Rolf Magnus]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 09:30, Rick Mann wrote:

> Which is the preferred thing to use?

That depends on what you want to do. Use --host to specify which architecture 
the compiler is supposed to run under and --target to specify the 
architecture that it should genate code for.

> Does it make sense to use both? 

It might, e.g. if you want to build a gcc under linux that should later be 
executed under cygwin and generate avr code.

> I've been using --target=avr, but when I tried to build libc-1.4.4,
> it complained and suggested I use --host instead. That seemed to work.

A compiler and a library are two different things.