[git commit] help: Document CROSS=

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:07:15PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:19:48PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 12:29:57 Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to head in the direction of not neeting
> > > CROSS_COMPILE/CROSS? That is, make it so the build system just works
> > > with cross compiling as long as CC is set to the right compiler? I can
> > > think of a few potential issues like the way stripping is performed
> > > that might need a cross-specific tool other than CC
> > 
> > the current system uses ar and nm and ld directly.  the first two could be 
> > moved to partial linking so there's only ld and cc, but i don't know if you 
> > can do partial linking with gcc easily.  obviously stripping would still need 
> > to be sep, but i think stripping isn't done by default, so that isn't a big 
> > deal.
> [...]
> As for stripping, it is done by default: the build system builds
> busybox_unstripped with -g then uses strip to produce the plain

DOH! Somehow I was thinking this discussion was on the busybox list
not the uclibc one... Sorry for the noise.

Rich