From: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@xxxxxxxxx> Linux has an recent option to define CROSS_COMPILE in menuconfig. Typically, one of the options when building for another target is ('arm' is just an example): # make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-cc O=../build If I omit CROSS_COMPILE and use the new way in .config: CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE="arm-cc" I got: cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mlittle-endian" cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mabi=aapcs-linux" cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mno-thumb-interwork" /usr/src/linux/kernel/bounds.c:1: error: bad value (armv5t) for -march= switch /usr/src/linux/kernel/bounds.c:1: error: bad value (armv5t) for -mtune= switch make[2]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1 make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2 make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 Verbose output clearly says that I'm using the host compiler instead cross compiler. This patch fixed my problem. Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Makefile~kbuild-fix-config_cross_compile-issue-in-config Makefile --- a/Makefile~kbuild-fix-config_cross_compile-issue-in-config +++ a/Makefile @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH) ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) CROSS_COMPILE ?= -CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%) +CROSS_COMPILE := $(shell grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE .config | cut -d'"' -f2) # Architecture as present in compile.h UTS_MACHINE := $(ARCH) _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html