Just to be clear, you're suggesting that if you have: --build=powerpc-foo-bar --host=powerpc64-foo-bar --target=powerpc64-foo-bar
The user be able to specify something so that the build systems knows the build machine can execute the host binaries, and a 4-stage bootstrap should occur? Well, that's possible, but I'd really prefer to avoid dealing with "bootstraps" of cross-compilers at all and stick to native compilers, so no, I'm not really suggesting that.