The tools described in these manuals can be configured for use with
several different targets. Historically, prc-tools was configured for
m68k-palmos-coff; nowadays it is normally configured for
m68k-palmos and arm-palmos.
These manuals refer to the tools they describe using their generic
target-neutral names. Most tools in the prc-tools package are
cross-compiler tools rather than native ones, and the
convention is to prefix these commands with their target so as to
distinguish them from their native counterparts. For example, the GDB
manual describes the gdb command, but for debugging against a
Palm OS device you actually want to use the m68k-palmos-gdb
command.
The exceptions are make, which is a native tool and
neither has nor needs any Palm OS-specific functionality, and
build-prc and palmdev-prep, which are
Palm OS-specific but not specific to any one particular Palm OS
target. In these cases, the command you type is just the name of the
utility, as is.