From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: [i2c-tools][PATCH] honor CROSS_COMPILE Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:01:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20110108210130.GC4045@pengutronix.de> References: <1294426874-24973-1-git-send-email-nm@ti.com> <20110108192345.GB4045@pengutronix.de> <4D28C9D5.8050401@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E13BgyNx05feLLmH" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D28C9D5.8050401-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nishanth Menon Cc: linux-i2c List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org --E13BgyNx05feLLmH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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_COM= PILE. > >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 t= his: 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 --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --E13BgyNx05feLLmH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0o0KoACgkQD27XaX1/VRsSDwCgv3s7KgJG70nZZAUoIZOEpCLF bkAAn2sIcYkDw3GjyNqSi47wubqGB1g6 =wORv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E13BgyNx05feLLmH--