List of valid arguments for the --host parameter on configure files

Question

I am looking for a list of valid arguments I can use when specifying a host on a configure script. For example I could do something like this:

./configure --host=alpha-netbsd

And that would set the platform and the system, but what other options are there? (I should also specify I am on OSX).

Answer 1

Though being late and incomplete question, hope it may still help someone.

These is no finite list of all possible --host parameter values (configuration names). The combinations are basically infinite, because autoconf implements sort of recognition (guessing) of the configuration name.

You can read the following section in autoconf manual:

• Autoconf manual - section 26. Cross Compilation with GNU Autotools

If you are really interested in implementation of autoconf, you can peek to autoconf repository:

• /autoconf.git/tree/build-aux/config.sub
• /autoconf.git/tree/build-aux/config.guess

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