%general-entities; ]> Setting Host and Target During the building of the cross-compile tools you will need to set a few variables that will be dependent on your particular needs. You will need to set the target triplet for the target architecture. As well as the CPUs type and endianess. If you do not know what triplet you want, you can use the table at the bottom of this page as a reference. Set the command using the method listed below: export CLFS_HOST=$(echo ${MACHTYPE} | sed "s/-[^-]*/-cross/") export CLFS_TARGET=[target triplet] Now we will set the architecture and endianess of the CPU based on the target triplet provided above: export CLFS_ARCH=$(echo ${CLFS_TARGET} | sed -e 's/-.*//' -e 's/i.86/i386/') export CLFS_ENDIAN=little Now we will add this to ~/.bashrc, just in case you have to exit and restart building later: echo export CLFS_HOST=\""${CLFS_HOST}\"" >> ~/.bashrc echo export CLFS_TARGET=\""${CLFS_TARGET}\"" >> ~/.bashrc echo export CLFS_ARCH=\""${CLFS_ARCH}\"" >> ~/.bashrc echo export CLFS_ENDIAN=\""${CLFS_ENDIAN}\"" >> ~/.bashrc Processor Target Triplet 486 Compatibles i486-pc-linux-uclibc Pentium, K6, 586 Compatibles i586-pc-linux-uclibc Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 i686-pc-linux-uclibc Athlon, Duron i686-pc-linux-uclibc x86_64 x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc