On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:32:21PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote: > Wolfram Sang wrote, on 01/08/2011 01:23 PM: > >Then again, the vast majority of userspace-projects do not use CROSS_COMPILE. > >Build systems like ptxdist and buildroot have done fine with overriding CC so > >far. I don't see much gain in that addition. > > > The same is true for CROSS_COMPILE as well.. since the patch does > still allow CC to be over-ridden (as was the previous behavior), why > not add CROSS_COMPILE as well considering folks who could be cross > compiling just i2ctools without using buildroot and the likes? You can override CC even without a build-system :) I would sum it up like this: On the positive side you could call it "more flexible", on the negative side you could call it "redundant". I wouldn't pick it up, but I surely have no strong feelings about it. It is up to Jean, after all. Kind regards, Wolfram -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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