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

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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