Re: [PATCH] perf tools: allow cross compiling of perf tools

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 21:24 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 20:11 +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > For embedded systems we need to cross compile applications on
> > the build machine. Use the CROSS_COMPILE variable like the kernel
> > itself.
> > 
> > Additionally, we can't use uname to determine whether we should
> > build for 64 bit. Use the -dumpmachine flag of GCC to determine
> > the target arch.
> 
> Hmm, and here I though Michael already send something similar to this..
> but apparently I can't really find it

Ah, I'm turning senile, was looking at the wrong kernel tree.

Your patch is against something ancient too ;-)

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