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+<h3 class="section">6.1 Configure Terms and History</h3>
+<a name="index-configure-terms"></a>
+<a name="index-canadian"></a>
+
+<p>The configure and build process has a long and colorful history, and can
+be confusing to anyone who doesn&rsquo;t know why things are the way they are.
+While there are other documents which describe the configuration process
+in detail, here are a few things that everyone working on GCC should
+know.
+</p>
+<p>There are three system names that the build knows about: the machine you
+are building on (<em>build</em>), the machine that you are building for
+(<em>host</em>), and the machine that GCC will produce code for
+(<em>target</em>). When you configure GCC, you specify these with
+<samp>--build=</samp>, <samp>--host=</samp>, and <samp>--target=</samp>.
+</p>
+<p>Specifying the host without specifying the build should be avoided, as
+<code>configure</code> may (and once did) assume that the host you specify
+is also the build, which may not be true.
+</p>
+<p>If build, host, and target are all the same, this is called a
+<em>native</em>. If build and host are the same but target is different,
+this is called a <em>cross</em>. If build, host, and target are all
+different this is called a <em>canadian</em> (for obscure reasons dealing
+with Canada&rsquo;s political party and the background of the person working
+on the build at that time). If host and target are the same, but build
+is different, you are using a cross-compiler to build a native for a
+different system. Some people call this a <em>host-x-host</em>,
+<em>crossed native</em>, or <em>cross-built native</em>. If build and target
+are the same, but host is different, you are using a cross compiler to
+build a cross compiler that produces code for the machine you&rsquo;re
+building on. This is rare, so there is no common way of describing it.
+There is a proposal to call this a <em>crossback</em>.
+</p>
+<p>If build and host are the same, the GCC you are building will also be
+used to build the target libraries (like <code>libstdc++</code>). If build and host
+are different, you must have already built and installed a cross
+compiler that will be used to build the target libraries (if you
+configured with <samp>--target=foo-bar</samp>, this compiler will be called
+<code>foo-bar-gcc</code>).
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+you&rsquo;re building on (no change there), host is the machine you&rsquo;re
+building for (the target libraries are built for the target, so host is
+the target you specified), and target doesn&rsquo;t apply (because you&rsquo;re not
+building a compiler, you&rsquo;re building libraries). The configure/make
+process will adjust these variables as needed. It also sets
+<code>$with_cross_host</code> to the original <samp>--host</samp> value in case you
+need it.
+</p>
+<p>The <code>libiberty</code> support library is built up to three times: once
+for the host, once for the target (even if they are the same), and once
+for the build if build and host are different. This allows it to be
+used by all programs which are generated in the course of the build
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