Maciej W. Rozycki - Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59 (original) (raw)

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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Erik Christiansen wrote:

--build seems to be a synonym for --host, so its only useful purpose that I've imagined so far is to specify a native build if configure fails to detect that to the user's satisfaction. (And that could be done with --host, if that did not spuriously trigger a cross.)

The "--build" option lets you specify your non-canonical name of the build system, e.g. if you want to have your native binutils installed under /usr/i386-linux/bin rather than /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin (in addition to /usr/bin that is).

Maciej

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