>> >And, when bulding cross-compilation tools, is MACHINE_ARCH defined to the 
>> >arch of your host or to the arch for which you are compiling? I think
>> >the first would make more sense, but I haven't checked it.
>> 
>> ifaict, if you're building cross tools via build.sh (ie, you are
>> running "./build.sh -t -m foo"), then build.sh will set MACHINE and
>> MACHINE_ARCH to the *target*.
>
>Maybe there is a good reason for this. But there should be a way to
>determine for which platforms the binaries being build are intended.

the values of MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH will tell you to what you are
building.  if you wanna know what you're building *on* (ie, what the
host is), you can check the values returned by uname -m and uname -p.

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