From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 05 May 2006 00:06:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:26844 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133813AbWEDXGv (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 00:06:51 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k44N6mdF005319; Fri, 5 May 2006 00:06:48 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k44N6lQq005318; Fri, 5 May 2006 00:06:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 00:06:47 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Tom Rini Cc: Thiemo Seufer , Tim Bird , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Message-ID: <20060504230647.GA3465@linux-mips.org> References: <445A577D.7090507@am.sony.com> <20060504205517.GF18218@networkno.de> <20060504210449.GA12676@smtp.west.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060504210449.GA12676@smtp.west.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11330 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:04:49PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Let me ask a stupid question. With all of the ways to otherwise do a > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS? ARM*/SH*, which are at > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that. Just > something I've always wondered, really. Having such information in an environment variable is imho terribly inelegant, having to pass it on the command line for each make invocation is terrible abuse for the fingertips so I went for this option which makes the makefile pick the right prefix. Ralf