@table @code
@item --with-sysroot
@itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
-Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains a
-(subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
+Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains
+(a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
searched in there. More specifically, this acts as if
@option{--sysroot=@var{dir}} was added to the default options of the built