Is this a bug? "target remote" doesn't follow "set architecture"

[Michael Snyder]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:24:12AM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> I built a gdb with target=i686-linux.  I also want to use it
>> for remote debugging.
> 
> Did you configure GDB such that the x86-64 support was built too?
> It isn't by default.

Configure.tgt seems to suggest that it is.
And "set archi" offers it as a choice.