From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute: Support cross-compiling.
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:41:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC322F1.8080309@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111115171722.02fa1c77@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 11/15/2011 05:17 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
At the least, the parts that let you use your own CC could
be split out and applied?
I've no interest in trying to fix whatever is wrong with my
tool chain..just not worth the effort since I don't need
network namespaces and I don't need the arp daemon.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-16 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 1:04 [RFC] iproute: Support cross-compiling greearb
2011-11-16 1:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-16 2:41 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2011-11-16 4:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-16 10:53 ` Pádraig Brady
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