--- standards.texi~	2002-05-29 20:58:40.000000000 +0200
+++ standards.texi	2002-11-19 10:35:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @setfilename standards.info
 @settitle GNU Coding Standards
 @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
address@hidden lastupdate May 29, 2002
address@hidden lastupdate novembre 19, 2002
 @c %**end of header

 @ifinfo
@@ -3510,9 +3510,14 @@
 possible, @code{configure} can add to the Makefile a variable named
 @code{srcdir} whose value is precisely the specified directory.

-The @code{configure} script should also take an argument which specifies the
-type of system to build the program for.  This argument should look like
-this:
+The @code{configure} script must also support the options
address@hidden, which specifies the type of system on which the
+program will be compiled, @option{--host}, which specifies the type of
+system on which the program will be run, and @option{--target}, which
+specifies the type of system which the program will target (e.g., for
+a compiler, this is the system for which it generates executables).
+
+These machine type arguments should look like this:

 @example
 @address@hidden@var{system}
@@ -3557,11 +3562,8 @@
 @c  Giving an optional @var{parameter} of
 @c @samp{no} should omit @var{package}, if it is used by default.

-Possible values of @var{package} include
address@hidden (or @samp{gas}), @samp{gnu-ld}, @samp{gnu-libc},
address@hidden,
address@hidden,
-and
+Possible values of @var{package} include @samp{gnu-as} (or @samp{gas}),
address@hidden, @samp{gnu-libc}, @samp{gdb}, @samp{x}, and
 @samp{x-toolkit}.

 Do not use a @samp{--with} option to specify the file name to use to
@@ -3586,9 +3588,25 @@
 cross-compilation.  In such a case, the host and target machines for the
 program may be different.

-The @code{configure} script should normally treat the specified type of
-system as both the host and the target, thus producing a program which
-works for the same type of machine that it runs on.
+If @option{--build} only is specified, the @command{configure} script
+should normally treat the specified type of system as the build, the
+host and the target, thus producing a program which works for the same
+type of machine that it runs on.  The @command{configure} script
+should normally guess the build machine type (using
address@hidden), so this option is probably not necessary.  As an
+alternative syntax, the build machine type can be specified alone on
+the command line; the following two invocations are equivalent
+
address@hidden
+./configure buildtype
+./configure address@hidden
address@hidden example
+
+Cross-compiling a program (be it a compiler or not) requires compiling
+it on a machine other than the host it will run on.  Compilation
+packages accept a configuration option @address@hidden
+for specifying the configuration on which you will run them,
+defaulting to the build machine type.

 To configure a cross-compiler, cross-assembler, or what have you, you
 should specify a target different from the host, using the configure
@@ -3597,21 +3615,10 @@
 look like this:

 @example
-./configure @var{hosttype} address@hidden
+./configure address@hidden
 @end example

-Programs for which cross-operation is not meaningful need not accept the
address@hidden option, because configuring an entire operating system for
-cross-operation is not a meaningful operation.
-
-Bootstrapping a cross-compiler requires compiling it on a machine other
-than the host it will run on.  Compilation packages accept a
-configuration option @address@hidden for specifying the
-configuration on which you will compile them, but the configure script
-should normally guess the build machine type (using
address@hidden), so this option is probably not necessary.  The
-host and target types normally default from the build type, so in
-bootstrapping a cross-compiler you must specify them both explicitly.
+The target type normally defaults to the host type.

 Some programs have ways of configuring themselves automatically.  If
 your program is set up to do this, your @code{configure} script can simply