System Type Variables

After calling AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, the following output variables contain the system type information. After AC_CANONICAL_HOST, only the host variables below are set.

build, host, target

the canonical system names;

build_alias, host_alias, target_alias

the names the user specified, or the canonical names if config.guess was used;

build_cpu, build_vendor, build_os

host_cpu, host_vendor, host_os

target_cpu, target_vendor, target_os

the individual parts of the canonical names (for convenience).

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