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From: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow CROSS_COMPILE override
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:06:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E55517E.40905@murphy.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030220215725.GA31222@nevyn.them.org

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>Silly question: why does this matter if CROSS_COMPILE is on the command
>line?  Command line definitions override anything in the makefile.  Is
>it falling off the command line in a recursive make?
>  
>
You need ?= to allow the define in the top level makefile to override 
that in
the sub-makefile. You also need it if you want to get the value from an
environment variable and not from something like this:

make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx

which is the only case where it works now.

/Brian

      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 20:47 [PATCH] allow CROSS_COMPILE override Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:15 ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-20 21:23   ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:35     ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-20 21:57       ` Pete Popov
2003-02-20 22:03     ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-21  0:08       ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-20 22:06   ` Brian Murphy [this message]

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