[PATCH 1 of 2] docs: --target versus --host

[Trevor Woerner]

Yann,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Yann E. MORIN
<yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
>>  or
>> -  make CC=your-target-tuple-gcc
>> +  make CC=your-host-tuple-gcc
>>  or
>> -  make CROSS_COMPILE=your-target-tuple-
>> +  make CROSS_COMPILE=your-host-tuple-
>>  and so on...
>
> Aren't all these build/host/target things sneaky and confusing? ;-)
>
> To make things clear, I'd like to add this snippet:
>
>    (Note: in the above examples, 'host' refers to the host of your program,
>    not the host of the toolchain; and 'build' refers to the machine where
>    you build your program, that is the host of the toolchain.)
>
> What do you think?

Haha, yes! I sat there looking at it for a while and wondering which
would be correct :-)

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