Re: invoking a native compiler (gcc)

Trevor Woerner
2016-01-07T15:40:34Z

Hi Robert,

On 01/07/16 03:07, Robert Yang wrote:
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> On 01/07/2016 01:21 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> If a recipe needs to build some tool on the build machine which it later
>> wants to invoke, my understanding is that BUILD_CC should be used?
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> Yes, you're right, use ${BUILD_CC}.
>

Ok, thanks. That's what I thought.

I was surprised to find that BUILD_CC is being set to whatever comes up
first in our build computer's PATH. But I guess the alternative would be
to make our builds longer by compiling our own native compiler for such
cases.