Re: [PATCH] kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2009-09-07 11:38:01, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Yes that would be very nice. Editing Makefile every time I
> > crosscomppile for arm sucks.
> 
> The other trick I can recommend is to write a GNUmakefile containing:
> 
> ARCH=foo
> CROSS_COMPILE=foo-linux-
> include Makefile

Hehe, thanks.

> (GNU make reads GNUmakefile in preference to Makefile.)
> But this manual hackery is still not nearly as nice as the automagic way.
> 
> > But... do we need an option for subarch, too? And will Kconfig system
> > handle that?
> 
> I'm not sure I follow exactly what your concern is.  I am mostly familiar
> with doing x86 and powerpc builds.  For both of those, the kernel config
> sets whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit world.

Well, my concern is that your patch allows me to set $CROSS_COMPILE,
but I need to set $ARCH too, to get useful result. So I can't actually
see how to use your patch.
									Pavel

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