-@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GCC manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
+@node Configure Terms
@section Configure Terms and History
@cindex configure terms
@cindex canadian
-This section is not instructions for building GCC. If you are trying to
-do a build, you should first read @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/} or
-whatever installation instructions came with your source package.
-
The configure and build process has a long and colorful history, and can
be confusing to anyone who doesn't know why things are the way they are.
While there are other documents which describe the configuration process
@dfn{crossed native}, or @dfn{cross-built native}. 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're
-building on. This is rare, so there is no common way of describing it
-(although I propose calling it a @dfn{crossback}).
+building on. This is rare, so there is no common way of describing it.
+There is a proposal to call this a @dfn{crossback}.
If build and host are the same, the GCC you are building will also be
used to build the target libraries (like @code{libstdc++}). If build and host
-are different, you must have already build and installed a cross
+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 @option{--target=foo-bar}, this compiler will be called
@command{foo-bar-gcc}).
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