Re: with_cross_host vs cross-hosted

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:02:48PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> The machine the code will run on is the "host".  Since libstdc++ runs
> on the thing the toplevel knows as "target", it follows that for
> compiling libstdc++ the toplevel must set host to target.  "target" is
> the machine that code will be compiled for, but libstdc++ isn't
> a compiler, so it doesn't need a target setting.

This is one of those things that makes perfect, wonderful sense once
it's been explained, but is really difficult to intuit on your own.
Something else that needs to be in the manual, somewhere...


Phil

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