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   When configuring a Canadian Cross in the Cygnus tree, all the
appropriate environment variables are automatically set to `HOST-TOOL',
where HOST is the value used for the `--host' option, and TOOL is the
name of the tool (e.g., `gcc', `as', etc.).  These tools must be on
your `PATH'.
   Adding a prefix of HOST will give the usual name for the build cross
host tools.  To see this, consider that when these cross tools were
built, they were configured to run on the build system and to produce
code for the host system.  That is, they were configured with a
`--target' option that is the same as the system which we are now
calling the host.  Recall that the default name for installed cross
tools uses the target system as a prefix (*note Using the Target
Type::).  Since that is the system which we are now calling the host,
HOST is the right prefix to use.
   For example, if you configure with `--build=i386-linux-gnu' and
`--host=solaris', then the Cygnus tree will automatically default to
using the compiler `solaris-gcc'.  You must have previously built and
installed this compiler, probably by doing a build with no `--host'
option and with a `--target' option of `solaris'.