From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Steven Liu <stevenliu@psdc.com>
Cc: Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: mips-tfile
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:23:05 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010519002305.B1209@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801c0dff4$3870ba60$dde0490a@pcs.psdc.com>; from stevenliu@psdc.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:42:37PM -0700
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:42:37PM -0700, Steven Liu wrote:
> 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?
During the build process of the kernel some tools like scripts/mkdep and
others are built which are running on the compile machine, not the target
machine. The variable HOSTCFLAGS takes some extra compiler options to be
passed for such compilations.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-19 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-05 12:49 mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-03-05 12:49 ` mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-03-06 4:55 ` mips-tfile Keith M Wesolowski
2001-03-09 16:58 ` mips-tfile Ralf Baechle
2001-05-18 1:09 ` mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-05-18 1:09 ` mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-05-18 1:31 ` mips-tfile Ralf Baechle
2001-05-18 23:42 ` mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-05-18 23:42 ` mips-tfile Steven Liu
2001-05-18 23:50 ` mips-tfile Justin Carlson
2001-05-19 3:23 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-03-09 17:15 ` Scrabled headers, was: mips-tfile Ralf Baechle
2001-03-09 17:15 ` Ralf Baechle
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