Re: [i2c-tools][PATCH] honor CROSS_COMPILE

[Nishanth Menon <nm-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>]

Jean Delvare had written, on 01/10/2011 08:26 AM, the following:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:01:30 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:32:21PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>> Wolfram Sang wrote, on 01/08/2011 01:23 PM:
>>>> Then again, the vast majority of userspace-projects do not use CROSS_COMPILE.
>>>> Build systems like ptxdist and buildroot have done fine with overriding CC so
>>>> far. I don't see much gain in that addition.
>>>>
>>> The same is true for CROSS_COMPILE as well.. since the patch does
>>> still allow CC to be over-ridden (as was the previous behavior), why
>>> not add CROSS_COMPILE as well considering folks who could be cross
>>> compiling just i2ctools without using buildroot and the likes?
>> You can override CC even without a build-system :) I would sum it up like this:
>> On the positive side you could call it "more flexible", on the negative side
>> you could call it "redundant". I wouldn't pick it up, but I surely have no
>> strong feelings about it. It is up to Jean, after all.
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion on this either. But I don't get the point
> of setting values for AS, LD, AR etc. when they don't seem to be used
> anywhere. And STRIP is set too, but "strip" hard-coded in
> tools/Module.mk, so I fail to see how that would work. What am I
> missing?
I think I should have done just CC alone. I missed the strip one. but 
are we interested in having CROSS_COMPILE? if yes, I can cleanup the 
patch and resubmit.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon