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<h2 class="chapter">18 Selecting the Target System</h2>
<p>You can specify two aspects of the target system to the <span class="sc">gnu</span>
binary file utilities, each in several ways:
<ul>
<li>the target
<li>the architecture
</ul>
<p>In the following summaries, the lists of ways to specify values are in
order of decreasing precedence. The ways listed first override those
listed later.
<p>The commands to list valid values only list the values for which the
programs you are running were configured. If they were configured with
<samp><span class="option">--enable-targets=all</span></samp>, the commands list most of the available
values, but a few are left out; not all targets can be configured in at
once because some of them can only be configured <dfn>native</dfn> (on hosts
with the same type as the target system).
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