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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute:  Support cross-compiling.
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:17:22 -0800
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:04:42 -0800
greearb@candelatech.com wrote:

> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 
> This lets users use their own compiler instead of
> hard-coding to use gcc.
> 
> Also adds tests to disable some things that were not supported
> in my ARM cross-compile toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

Can't you do this by setting up the compile environment better?
I would rather have the tools work with all features and handle
errors from kernel rather than neutering it.