On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:01:30 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > 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. I don't have a strong opinion on this either. But I don't get the point of setting values for AS, LD, AR etc. when they don't seem to be used anywhere. And STRIP is set too, but "strip" hard-coded in tools/Module.mk, so I fail to see how that would work. What am I missing? -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
