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Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59
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