source: BOOK/cross-tools/native/variables.xml@ ef1a894

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  <title>Build Variables</title>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Setting Host and Target</bridgehead>

  <para os="a">During the building of the cross-compile tools you will need to
  set a few variables that will be dependent on your particular needs.
  The first variable will be the triplet of the host machine, which will be
  put into the <envar>CLFS_HOST</envar> variable. To account for the
  possibility that the host and target are the same arch, as cross-compiling
  won't work when host and target are the same, part of the triplet needs to
  be changed slightly to add "cross". Set <envar>CLFS_HOST</envar> using the
  following command:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>export CLFS_HOST="$(echo $MACHTYPE | \
    sed "s/$(echo $MACHTYPE | cut -d- -f2)/cross/")"</userinput></screen>

  <para os="c">Now you will need to set the triplet for the target
  architecture. Set the target variable using the following command:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>export CLFS_TARGET="$MACHTYPE"</userinput></screen>

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