Autoconf

Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts

Edition 2.52, for Autoconf version 2.52

17 July 2001

David MacKenzie and Ben Elliston

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GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, by G. V. Vaughan, B. Elliston, T. Tromey, and I. L. Taylor. New Riders, 2000, ISBN 1578701902.

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Using defn.

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For backward compatibility, configure will accept a system type as an option by itself. Such an option will override the defaults for build, host and target system types. The following configure statement will configure a cross toolchain that will run on NetBSD/alpha but generate code for GNU Hurd/sparc, which is also the build platform. 

./configure --host=alpha-netbsd sparc-gnu

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