From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:56:37 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] tools: Use override when changing CC,
 CFLAGS, etc.
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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 17:24:35 Scott Wood wrote:
>> If the user has specified a CC or similar on the command line, that is the
>> cross compiler, not the host compiler.  Override is needed to keep these
>> assignments from being ignored in that case.
> 
> then again, if we didnt mix host and target variable names, this wouldnt be a 
> problem.  in a sane world, all of the host stuff would be HOSTXX (or BUILDXX).

Right... I initially tried substituting in HOSTCC, but it still tried to 
use CC, probably from an implicit rule that would need to be made 
explicit in order to use HOSTCC.

I can try to respin it with a new explicit rule if y'all want.

-Scott