Hi Vineet, > -----Original Message----- > From: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> > Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 7:25 PM > To: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com>; linux-snps-...@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Masahiro Yamada > <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARC: build: Try to guess CROSS_COMPILE with > cc-cross-prefix > > On 6/2/19 11:31 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > > For a long time we used to hard-code CROSS_COMPILE prefix > > for ARC until it started to cause problems, so we decided to > > solely rely on CROSS_COMPILE externally set by a user: > > commit 40660f1fcee8 ("ARC: build: Don't set CROSS_COMPILE in arch's > > Makefile"). > > > > While it works perfectly fine for build-systems where the prefix > > gets defined anyways for us human beings it's quite an annoying > > requirement especially given most of time the same one prefix > > "arc-linux-" is all what we need. > > > > It looks like finally we're getting the best of both worlds: > > 1. W/o cross-toolchain we still may install headers, build .dtb etc > > 2. W/ cross-toolchain get the kerne built with only ARCH=arc > > > > Inspired by [1] & [2]. > > > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2019-May/005788.html > > [2] > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc2b47b55f17 > > > > A side note: even though "cc-cross-prefix" does its job it pollutes > > console with output of "which" for all the prefixes it didn't manage to find > > a matching cross-compiler for like that: > > | # ARCH=arc make defconfig > > | which: no arceb-linux-gcc in (~/.local/bin:~/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin) > > | *** Default configuration is based on 'nsim_hs_defconfig' > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> > > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> > > Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> > > Not a big deal but I'd propose we add "Suggested-by: vgupta" since that is > where > it came from.
Ooops, indeed that should have been added, but instead I just mentioned your earlier email in the mailing list. Care to add yourself on patch application? -Alexey