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 Using the Host Type
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    In almost all cases the host system is the system on which you run
 the `configure' script, and on which you build the tools (for the case
 when they differ,  Canadian Cross).
 
    If your configure script needs to know the configuration name of the
 host system, and the package is not a cross compilation tool and
 therefore does not have a target, put `AC_CANONICAL_HOST' in
 `configure.in'.  This macro will arrange to define a few shell
 variables when the `configure' script is run.
 
 `host'
      The canonical configuration name of the host.  This will normally
      be determined by running the `config.guess' shell script, although
      the user is permitted to override this by using an explicit
      `--host' option.
 
 `host_alias'
      In the unusual case that the user used an explicit `--host' option,
      this will be the argument to `--host'.  In the normal case, this
      will be the same as the `host' variable.
 
 `host_cpu'
 `host_vendor'
 `host_os'
      The first three parts of the canonical configuration name.
 
    The shell variables may be used by putting shell code in
 `configure.in'.  For an example, see  Using Configuration Names.
 

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