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

[Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

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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.

Kind regards,

   Wolfram

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