answered my own question....

[Sriharsha Vedurmudi]

You need to specify the machine you are using to build gcc as HOST (--host) and the machine for which this gcc is intended to produce the 
code for as TARGET (--target).

The thing you are seeing in the square brackets are the DEFAULTS which autoconf will assume if you do not supply any arguement.



Steven Miller wrote:
> --target and --host behave differently despite what ./configure --help says
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> Steven
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