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authorAlexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>2002-06-10 17:44:08 +0000
committerAlexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>2002-06-10 17:44:08 +0000
commite906bbac9de2c8797b074bf86b6acc5ca360cddd (patch)
treed91f025d7ac11a15e7b948cf2d30a2fbf3e56cd6 /lib/INSTALL
parentd8d7370a5ff5955967207e53f378066b504b0895 (diff)
downloadautomake-e906bbac9de2c8797b074bf86b6acc5ca360cddd.tar.gz
* lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex, lib/INSTALL,
INSTALL: New upstream versions.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/INSTALL')
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diff --git a/lib/INSTALL b/lib/INSTALL
index 62ea076c1..a4b34144d 100644
--- a/lib/INSTALL
+++ b/lib/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc.
+Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ Compilers and Options
the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help'
for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
- You can give `configure' initial values for variables by setting
-them in the environment. You can do that on the command line like this:
+ You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
+by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
+is an example:
./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
@@ -137,9 +138,10 @@ Specifying the System Type
==========================
There may be some features `configure' cannot 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 cannot guess the host type, give it the
+automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
+will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
+_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
`--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
@@ -151,20 +153,16 @@ where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
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.
+need to know the machine type.
If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
produce code for.
If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
-platform different from the build platform, you should specify the host
-platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will eventually be
-run) with `--host=TYPE'. In this case, you should also specify the
-build platform with `--build=TYPE', because, in this case, it may not
-be possible to guess the build platform (it sometimes involves
-compiling and running simple test programs, and this can't be done if
-the compiler is a cross compiler).
+platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
+"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
+eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
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