lt, the build will compile code for the architecture that
it's running on. In order to build cross-compile Mesa on a x86-64 machine
that is to run on a i686, one would need to set the options to:</p>

<p><code>--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu</code></p>

Note that these can vary from distribution to distribution. For more
information check with the
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html">
autoconf manual