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

[Jean Delvare <khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

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?

-- 
Jean Delvare