CROSS_COMPILE
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Jul 19 22:01:33 UTC 2006
On Monday 17 July 2006 11:27 am, Paul Fox wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:11:49PM +0200, Thomas Fr=F6hlich wrote:
> > > Why did someone erase the configs USING_CROSS_COMPILER &
> > > CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX in revision r1559?
> > >
> > > I think this was a nice feature!
> >
> > I agree.
>
> i believe the idea is that you now set this, and other local things
> like CFLAGS, i a file in the top directory called .config.mak.
>
> i agree that the other seemed more convenient.
>
> but mostly i think that
> a) the .config.mak file should not be a hidden file, and
1) It shouldn't be a _required_ file, which it isn't.
2) It's named after .config
> b) an empty copy of config.mak should be included in the
> source, with comments describing its purpose, and a
> couple of example lines to make the required format
> and likely contents obvious to the person configuring.
You don't actually need to use it. I just set the appropriate environment
variables on the command line, ala:
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- make
or
make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-
And yes, I need to do a proper changelog. After OLS... :)
Rob
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