<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Selecting the Target System - GNU Binary Utilities</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Binary Utilities"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.7"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Common-Options.html#Common-Options" title="Common Options"> <link rel="next" href="Reporting-Bugs.html#Reporting-Bugs" title="Reporting Bugs"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. man end--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="Selecting-the-Target-System"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Reporting-Bugs.html#Reporting-Bugs">Reporting Bugs</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Common-Options.html#Common-Options">Common Options</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr><br> </div> <h2 class="chapter">17 Selecting the Target System</h2> <p>You can specify two aspects of the target system to the <span class="sc">gnu</span> binary file utilities, each in several ways: <ul> <li>the target <li>the architecture </ul> <p>In the following summaries, the lists of ways to specify values are in order of decreasing precedence. The ways listed first override those listed later. <p>The commands to list valid values only list the values for which the programs you are running were configured. If they were configured with <span class="option">--enable-targets=all</span>, the commands list most of the available values, but a few are left out; not all targets can be configured in at once because some of them can only be configured <dfn>native</dfn> (on hosts with the same type as the target system). <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Architecture-Selection.html#Architecture-Selection">Architecture Selection</a> </ul> </body></html>