Specifying the System Type (Bash Reference Manual)
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10.5 Specifying the System Type
There may be some features configure
can not figure out automatically, but need to determine by the type of host Bash will run on. Usually configure
can figure that out, but if it prints a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the --host=TYPE
option. ‘TYPE
’ can either be a short name for the system type, such as ‘sun4
’, or a canonical name with three fields: ‘CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
’ (e.g., ‘i386-unknown-freebsd4.2
’).
See the file support/config.sub
for the possible values of each field.