From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 05 May 2006 00:14:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net ([68.230.241.31]:25064 "HELO fed1rmmtao08.cox.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with SMTP id S8133806AbWEDXOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 00:14:40 +0100 Received: from opus ([68.110.9.227]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060504231433.ICPL27967.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@opus>; Thu, 4 May 2006 19:14:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:14:32 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Thiemo Seufer , Tim Bird , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Message-ID: <20060504231432.GC12676@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <445A577D.7090507@am.sony.com> <20060504205517.GF18218@networkno.de> <20060504210449.GA12676@smtp.west.cox.net> <20060504230647.GA3465@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060504230647.GA3465@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11331 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: trini@kernel.crashing.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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/