Is "host" the build or the target system?

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-05-24 23:54, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> .. but we don't want to /build/ cross-compilers, do we?  We want to 
> /use/ a cross-compiler to build OpenJDK for some platform that is not 
> the same as the build platform.  What does the GNU autoconf manual say 
> about that?  At least let's compare apples and apples.

The autoconf take on the situation is basically that in that case you're 
building a "crippled" product which does not cross-compile in itself, so 
the value of --target is irrelevant.

/Magnus