[...]commit 7f48a0a8c15c41f382f2265088bc96007836e608
Author: Tiago Maluta<tiago.maluta@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 21 22:00:17 2010 +0200
Linux has an recent option to define CROSS_COMPILE in menuconfig.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7431c28..13126ae 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
CROSS_COMPILE ?=
-CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
+CROSS_COMPILE := $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2)
So this patch does two things:
1) It grep for CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE because we may not have incldued .config
2) It no longer pick up CROSS_COMPILE from the environment.
Traditionally we have picked up ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE from the environmnet,
hence the use of "?=".
"?=" says - perfrom this assignmnet unless lhs is already defined.
And lhs may be already defined is we have the ysmbol defined in the
environmnet.
I think the original submitter chenged from ?= to := without
realising this.
So the patch should be adjusted to use ?= again as you suggest
before it is applied.
I assume Michal / Andrew will take care.