From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22188 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2011 23:24:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 22176 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Nov 2011 23:24:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f169.google.com) (209.85.161.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:24:30 +0000 Received: by ggnq1 with SMTP id q1so395830ggn.0 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:24:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.85.129 with SMTP id h1mr36535404igz.47.1321485869722; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.0.193 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:24:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201111170018.27492.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> References: <201111170018.27492.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] docs: --target versus --host From: Trevor Woerner To: crossgcc@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 Yann, On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> =A0or >> - =A0make CC=3Dyour-target-tuple-gcc >> + =A0make CC=3Dyour-host-tuple-gcc >> =A0or >> - =A0make CROSS_COMPILE=3Dyour-target-tuple- >> + =A0make CROSS_COMPILE=3Dyour-host-tuple- >> =A0and so on... > > Aren't all these build/host/target things sneaky and confusing? ;-) > > To make things clear, I'd like to add this snippet: > > =A0 =A0(Note: in the above examples, 'host' refers to the host of your pr= ogram, > =A0 =A0not the host of the toolchain; and 'build' refers to the machine w= here > =A0 =A0you 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 :-) -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq