From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:37:54 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] kbuild: use "cc-cross-prefix" to choose CROSS_COMPILE In-Reply-To: <1394011464-23098-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> References: <1394011464-23098-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Message-ID: <20140305133754.GX16805@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:24:24PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > CROSS_COMPILE is generally passed from the command line > or by the environment variable because cross tools > vary from user to user. > > But, having some choices of often used CROSS_COMPILE > seems reasonable. > > $(call cc-cross-prefix, ...) returns the first prefix > where a prefix$(CC) is found in PATH. > > If your cross tools exist in the argument of > $(call cc-cross-prefix, ...), you do not have to > specify it explicitly. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada > --- > > My question is which cross tools are popular enough > to be added to the list. > > In my opition, arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc is popular > because it is distributed in Ubuntu. > > On the other hand, I am not sure ppc_8xx-gcc is currently > being used. > > Which one should be to added/deleted to our default list. > Your comments are very welcome. > (I am not familiar with compilers very much.) > > > arch/arm/config.mk | 2 +- > arch/microblaze/config.mk | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/config.mk | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Looking at the kernel, mips is a better example of where this becomes a handy thing, over just a "stop passing CROSS_COMPILE". But that includes adding tool-archpref. -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: