25.2. Specifying the Target
By default, the 'configure' script assumes that the target is the same as the host. This is the more common case; when the target is the same as the host, for example, you get a native compiler rather than a cross-compiler.
If you want to build a cross-compilation tool, you must specify the target explicitly by using the '--target' option when you run 'configure' (see Chapter 2). The argument to '--target' is the configuration name of the system for which you want to generate code (see Section 2.4, "Configuration Names" ). To build tools that generate code for a MIPS ELF–embedded system, for example, you use '--target mips-elf'.
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