konq-e Digest, Vol 21, Issue 11

[Federico Lucifredi]

Hello Lorn,
    Thanks for your explanation!

    Best - Federico

> Message: 7 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:30:13 +1000 From: Lorn Potter 
> <lpotter at trolltech.com> Subject: Re: konq-e on ppc To: For discussion 
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> charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>
>>> Hello All,
>>>    what does configure mean by the term "host" ? do we mean the target 
>>> os (PPC), or the host/compilation environment(X86)? I am confused, as it 
>>> seems from the traffic in this list that it is the former, while my 
>>> common sense suggests the latter...
>>> 
>>    
>>
>
>It is a bit confusing in the choice of wording.
>if you do ./configure --help you will see this:
>
>System types:
>   --build=BUILD     configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
>   --host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
>
>HOST would be the prefix to your cross copiler, in my case, I used 
>arm-linux-gcc so HOST is arm-linux
>  
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