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10.6 Specifying the System Type
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There may be some features 'configure' can not figure out automatically,
but needs to determine by the type of host the package will run on.
Usually 'configure' can figure that out, but if it prints a message
saying it can not guess the host type, give it the '--host=TYPE' option.
TYPE can either be a short name for the system type, such as 'sun4', or
a canonical name with three fields:
     CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
See the file 'config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If
'config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
need to know the host type.

   If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
use the '--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
produce code for and the '--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
system on which you are compiling the package.