Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: Specifying the Target

| ## 26.2 Specifying the Target By default, the ``configure'` script will assume that the target is the same as the host. This is the more common case; for example, when the target is the same as the host, you get a native compiler rather than a cross compiler. If you want to build a cross compilation tool, you must specify the target explicitly by using the ``--target'` option when you run ``configure'` See section 3. How to run configure and make. The argument to ``--target'` is the configuration name of the system for which you wish to generate code. See section 3.4 Configuration Names. For example, to build tools which generate code for a MIPS ELF embedded system, you would use ``--target mips-elf'`.

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