From: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow CROSS_COMPILE override
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:06:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E55517E.40905@murphy.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030220215725.GA31222@nevyn.them.org
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>Silly question: why does this matter if CROSS_COMPILE is on the command
>line? Command line definitions override anything in the makefile. Is
>it falling off the command line in a recursive make?
>
>
You need ?= to allow the define in the top level makefile to override
that in
the sub-makefile. You also need it if you want to get the value from an
environment variable and not from something like this:
make CROSS_COMPILE=xxx
which is the only case where it works now.
/Brian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 20:47 [PATCH] allow CROSS_COMPILE override Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:15 ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-20 21:23 ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:35 ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-20 21:57 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-20 22:03 ` Brian Murphy
2003-02-21 0:08 ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-20 22:06 ` Brian Murphy [this message]
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