How you should do it

• export DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE ?= \ $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)

• export DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE ?= \ $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)

• ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))

• confflags += --build $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)

• else

• confflags += --build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \ –-host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)

• endif

• ./configure $(confflags) –-blahblah --otherflags

Notes: