William Stearns wrote:
>
> Good day, Alan,
> A kernel build with your latest prepatch still seems to use gcc
> to compile some of the auxiliary tools:
>
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
>scripts/mkdep.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer gentbl.c -o gentbl -lm
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include
>scripts/split-include.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o conmakehash conmakehash.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o gen-devlist gen-devlist.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o tools/build tools/build.c
>-I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/include
>
> Do any of the above tools need to use kgcc as well, or is gcc
> likely to work just fine?
> Cheers,
> - Bill
The userspace tools should be fine with the newer gcc. It is set up
this way so that the userspace tools use the native compiler when
cross-compiling. If you're really paranoid, set HOSTCC=kgcc as well.
--
Brian Gerst
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