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 Canadian Cross Example
 ======================
 
    Here is an example of a Canadian Cross.
 
    While running on a GNU/Linux, you can build a program which will run
 on a Solaris system.  You would use a GNU/Linux cross Solaris compiler
 to build the program.
 
    Of course, you could not run the resulting program on your GNU/Linux
 system.  You would have to copy it over to a Solaris system before you
 would run it.
 
    Of course, you could also simply build the programs on the Solaris
 system in the first place.  However, perhaps the Solaris system is not
 available for some reason; perhaps you actually don't have one, but you
 want to build the tools for somebody else to use.  Or perhaps your
 GNU/Linux system is much faster than your Solaris system.
 
    A Canadian Cross build is most frequently used when building
 programs to run on a non-Unix system, such as DOS or Windows.  It may
 be simpler to configure and build on a Unix system than to support the
 configuration machinery on a non-Unix system.
 

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