Re: [PATCH 3/6] samples: use uapiprogs support for seccomp

Masahiro Yamada
2014-07-17T03:41:17Z

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:31:21 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > How can I build hostprogs for the same host as the kernel?
> > (I mean, how can I override $(HOSTCC) for cross-compiling ?)
>
> One way to do this:
>
> make ARCH=sparc CROSS_COMPILE=sparc-leon-linux-gnu- HOSTCC=sparc-leon-linux-gnu-gcc
>
> Notice that I override HOSTCC as part of the make comand line.
> This allows me to override the "=" assignment in the top-level Makefile.
>
> But then my build breaks as fixdep do not run on my host.
>
> If you in general want to build a binary for the target then uapiprogs come in handy.
> Only caveat here is that you will be using the exported kernel headers.
>

Thanks for explaining this. It is clearer to me now.

At first I thought this patch was a clean-up,
but it is indeed a big improvement.
Thanks!

Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada