Is "host" the build or the target system?

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Thu May 24 15:05:24 PDT 2012


On 2012-05-24 23:13, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> [..] this is what is described on wikipedia about cross compiling and autoconf,

You mean the article that begins by stating "The fundamental use of a 
cross compiler is to separate the build environment from target 
environment"??? ;-) 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-compilation#Uses_of_cross_compilers)

> We cannot just change the default behavior of configure, just because it feels better with some other english words....
Yes we can! :-) I just did...

/Magnus



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