On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 06:58:51 Daniel Hobi wrote: > On 10.11.2010 10:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday, October 11, 2010 12:06:46 Daniel Hobi wrote: > >> - use the cross compiler again (fw_printenv is intended for a > >> > >> hosted environment on the target). > > > > the cross-compiler used to create u-boot has no guarantee that it'll > > produce executables useful for the target OS. often this isnt the case. > > HOSTCC however will produce useful userspace applications for whatever > > host the user has selection. > > But in many cases the default for CC is sufficient to build such > executables, whereas the default for HOSTCC is almost never (except when > HOST==TARGET).
the difference is that the current state is consistent across all tools. i wish to cross-compile all of them for different systems and not just subsets in different inconsistent ways. > Usually HOSTCC refers to the system where the toolchain is running. So > maybe we should introduce TARGETCC to build executables running on the > system the toolchain is generating executables for. TARGETCC would i'm ok with splitting the logic a bit more to refine the intentions -mike
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