On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Toebs Douglass <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21/10/17 04:07, sugar wrote: >> >> Hi, how could for instance, compile a source in my server, but the actual >> target will be another server, should I enable certain special flags at >> the >> time of the compilation? > > I may be wrong, but as I understand it, GCC has the notion of a host, a > target and a build. > > The host is the platform (OS, processor, etc) which runs GCC. > > The target is the platform GCC emits code for. > > The build is the platform which is actually building this GCC. I'm not sure they are correct. Or it is not correct if you are using Autotools. Or I am mis-parsing things. I made the mistake a long time ago using Autotools. For Autotools, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2013-10/msg00007.html. Jeff
