From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:14:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060504231432.GC12676@smtp.west.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504230647.GA3465@linux-mips.org>
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:06:47AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:04:49PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > Let me ask a stupid question. With all of the ways to otherwise do a
> > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS? ARM*/SH*, which are at
> > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that. Just
> > something I've always wondered, really.
>
> Having such information in an environment variable is imho terribly
> inelegant, having to pass it on the command line for each make invocation
> is terrible abuse for the fingertips so I went for this option which makes
> the makefile pick the right prefix.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to front pushing that to the rest of
the world then, would you? Inconsistency is more of a problem for me
than changing any of my scripts to use something else :)
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-04 19:35 [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Tim Bird
2006-05-04 20:55 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-05-04 21:04 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-04 21:25 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:25 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:32 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:32 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:44 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-04 23:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-05-04 23:14 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2006-05-04 23:34 ` Tom Rini
2006-05-05 7:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-05-05 18:45 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from envir onment var Tim Bird
2006-05-08 18:56 ` Dan Malek
2006-05-04 21:17 ` [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Tim Bird
2006-05-04 22:35 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-05-08 18:22 ` Tim Bird
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