Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes: > `--host=HOST-TYPE' > the type of system on which the package will run. By default it > is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the > cross-compilation mode. > > There's a long archived discussion on the Autoconf mailing list about it. Is there a one-sentence summary of the reason for the change? -Miles -- We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde