On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:25:19AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > > > From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Rip out hardwired cross compiler name assumption that only m68k makes. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- > > > When you cross compile, you have to set the prefix CROSS_COMPILE to your > > > cross compiler prefix. You need to do this for all targets (arm, mips, > > > ppc, > > > x86-64 on x86, etc). This is not specific to m68k, and this value is > > > supplied _to_ the build, not supplied _by_ the build. > > > > > > The build shouldn't unconditionally overwrite the existing value of this > > > variable with one it makes up. It has no idea what I called my cross > > > compiler. > > > > The build does not unconditionally overwrite the existing value of this > > variable. You can specify the name of your cross compiler like this: > > > > make CROSS_COMPILE=m68k-linux- > > > > BTW, m68k-linux-gnu- is the default name for a m68k cross compiler. > > For "make headers_install" this is not good. > But I see there is confliting usages here. > 1) current functionality makes it easy to build a cross compiled m68k > > Btw. if you did: > CROSS_COMPILE ?= m68k-linux- > > then I could do: > export CROSS_COMPILE=my-m68k-linux- > make > > and still get the expected result.
That won't work, cfr. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/6/58. > 2) suggested functionality makes it easy to do make headers_install This is something completely different (cfr. the other thread handling it). If `make headers_install' doesn't need the cross compiler, it should not try to execute it. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
