[U-Boot] Building U-Boot under Ubuntu 8.10

[Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Ben Warren,
>
> In message <4A3136E6.9000006@gmail.com> you wrote:
>   
>> Based on my limited understanding, it seems this should be a valid 
>> prefix.  If you have a moment, can you explain why it's not?  In my 
>> installation everything seems to point to 'powerpc-linux-*':
>>     
>
> I already explained this.
>
> For details, please see the documentation; see especially section
> "3.6.A Table of possible values for $CROSS_COMPILE" at
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDKUsage#CrossCompileValues
>
> (note that this table does not mention all implications / effects  of
> chosing CROSS_COMPILE - there are other compiler optiones affected as
> well, i. e. things like -mfloat-gprs, -mspe, -mabi, etc.).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
>   
Got it.  Sorry for the noise.

Ben