Re: Library paths for Makefile based recipes

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 12/30/2010 06:11 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 16:58 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> Turns out the project Makefile is doing this:
>>>
>>> CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
>>> AR = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
>>>
>>> Removing those lines from the Makefile allows the project to build.
>>
>> You could also set CROSS_COMPILE to the right value (TARGET_PREFIX?) and
>> things should work. This looks very similar to how we cross compile the
>> kernel.
>
> I'm not familiar with this particular project, but unless it's bare
> metal or nearly so like a kernel or bootloader, that's likely not a
> good idea, since it won't end up obeying our TARGET_CC_ARCH.  An
> alternative to setting CC/AR in EXTRA_OEMAKE or removing those lines
> from the makefile would be to set them there, but using ?=.  This
> would let the versions in the environment be used in preference to
> those.

I'll ask Steven if he'd accept such a change.


-- 
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel