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There may be some features configure cannot figure out
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:
cpu-company-system |
where system can have one of these forms:
os kernel-os |
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 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'.