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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow CROSS_COMPILE override
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Is this allowed?  Can't find any such usage in kernel other
than the worrisome comment below:

arch/arm/Makefile:# Grr, ?= doesn't work as all the other assignment operators do.  Make bug?


Jun

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:15:06PM +0100, Brian Murphy wrote:
> Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> >Anybody would object this?  It allows one to override
> >
> Why not but this is less messy:
> 
> --- arch/mips/Makefile  13 Dec 2002 23:41:09 -0000      1.1.1.8
> +++ arch/mips/Makefile  20 Feb 2003 21:10:30 -0000
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  endif
>  
>  ifdef CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE
> -CROSS_COMPILE  = $(tool-prefix)
> +CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(tool-prefix)
>  endif
>  
>  #
> 
> /Brian
>