Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <201011101706.17988.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > based on your based comments, i'm really not surprised. you constantly > prefer > to ignore reality and the state of GNU toolchains. plus, you ignore other
I'm a software developer. If tool chains are broken, I try to fix them or get them fixed. My time is way to precious to be wasted on broken tools. Rather I spend it on getting tools to do what I need. > obvious setups. just because the toolchain in question may produce binaries > doesnt mean the binaries are in the ABI format desired for linux userspace. > > blindly assuming the toolchain that is being used to create u-boot will also > be used for creating userspace apps is fundamentally wrong. Sincere condolences if you have to work in such an environment. But even then, this is not a reason to break the code for people who are in a more lucky position. > > IIRC, HOSTCC refers to the C compiler on the and for the build host, > > i. e. when running on a x86 system it will create x86 code. This is > > obviously wrong when we try to build fw_printenv for, say, a PPC4xx > > system. > > and it is trivial for the user to say "i wish to build tools for PPC4xx > userland" Is it? And how so? And why would this not be the default setting, then? Mike, please state clearly if you have a solution for the current problem, or I will just revert that commit. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Cleverness and Style have no place in getting a project completed. -- Tom Christiansen _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot