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From: Justin Carlson <carlson@sibyte.com>
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Steven Liu wrote:
> Hi ALL:
> 
> I have a question regarding MIPS Makefile.
> 
> In the Makefile of the Linux build directory, there are two Macros of C
> compiler flags: HOSTCFLAGS and CFLAGS.
> 
> What are their purpose and difference? In another words, what is host gcc?
> Why do we use host gcc in building the target kernel?
> 

See Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.

-Justin