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dev-manual: Updates to the term "Cross-Development Toolchain" 

(From yocto-docs rev: 80fcb3ce0a7d91dff2cb09dc5267528cfb6548ae)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<listitem><para id='cross-development-toolchain'>
<emphasis>Cross-Development Toolchain:</emphasis>
A collection of software development
tools and utilities that allow you to develop software for
targeted architectures.
tools and utilities that run on one architecture but
allow you to develop software for a different targeted
architecture.
This toolchain contains cross-compilers, linkers, and debuggers
that are specific to an architecture.
You can use the OpenEmbedded build system to build a
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descriptions of each:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-cross-initial</filename>:
The initial compiler needed to bootstrap the toolchain
that runs on the host and is used to build software
for the target.
This tool is a "native" package.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-cross-intermediate</filename>:
The second stage of the bootstrap process that runs
on the host and builds software for the target.
This tool is a "native" package.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-cross</filename>:
The the final stage of the bootstrap process that
results in the cross compiler that runs on the host
The first stage of the bootstrap process that
results in the cross-compiler that runs on the host
and builds software for the target.
This tool is a "native" packages (i.e. it is
designed to run on the development host).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-cross</filename>:
The second and final stage of the previously described
bootstrap process.
If you are replacing the cross compiler toolchain
with a custom version, this is what you must replace.
This tool is a "native" package.</para></listitem>
with a custom version, you must replace
<filename>gcc-cross</filename>.
This tool is a "native" package (i.e. it is
designed to run on the development host).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-runtime</filename>:
Runtime libraries from the toolchain bootstrapping
process.
This tool produces a binary for the target.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-crosssdk-initial/intermediate</filename>:
Stage 1 and 2 of the a cross compiler that runs on the
host and builds for the SDK.
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-crosssdk-initial</filename>:
The first stage of the Software Development Kit (SDK)
cross-compiler that runs on the host and builds for
the SDK.
Often the SDK is not the same target as the host.
This tool is a "native" binary.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-crosssdk</filename>:
The final stage of the SDK compiler.
The second and final stage of the previously mentioned
SDK cross-compiler.
This tool is a "native" binary.
The tool runs on the host and builds for the SDK.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>gcc-cross-canadian</filename>:
The compiler that runs on the SDK machine and is
included with the SDK that builds software for the
target.
A compiler built on one machine (build machine) that
runs on a different machine (host machine) and produces
software that runs on a third target machine.
See WikipediA's
<ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#Canadian_Cross'>Cross Compiler</ulink>
page for a more general explanation of a
"Canadian Cross".
This compiler is included with the SDK that builds
software for the eventual target.
This tool is a "nativesdk" package.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Image:</emphasis> An image is the result produced when