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From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:17:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <445A6F51.90308@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504205517.GF18218@networkno.de>

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> It looks like the other arch-specific Makefiles also override the
> environment.

4 other arches I work with don't.

> To work around the problem, you can disable
> CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE and define CROSS_COMPILE in the environment.

I thought that might be the case, but that's pretty broken IMHO.
It's counterintuitive and undocumented.

> 
> Strangely enough, the help for CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE already explains
> that.

Here's the help from my Kconfig.debug:

          Say Y here if you are compiling the kernel on a different
          architecture than the one it is intended to run on.

Am I missing something?
 -- Tim

=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 21:17 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
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   ` Tim Bird [this message]
2006-05-04 22:35     ` [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Thiemo Seufer
2006-05-08 18:22       ` Tim Bird

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