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> So I'm wondering whether forcing them to a different string would
> have any effect on systems with build tools that come up with a
> different string? Do you have any insight there?
In theory, yes. In practice, there is no difference for all *-*-linux-gnu
targets. BTW you had already hardwired the target specification for ARM and
X86 if they are cross-compiled...
Right -- but in those two situations there was no choice but to
essentially copy what the native builds created.
Dave