On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:31:21 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How can I build hostprogs for the same host as the kernel? > > (I mean, how can I override $(HOSTCC) for cross-compiling ?) > > One way to do this: > > make ARCH=sparc CROSS_COMPILE=sparc-leon-linux-gnu- HOSTCC=sparc-leon-linux-gnu-gcc > > Notice that I override HOSTCC as part of the make comand line. > This allows me to override the "=" assignment in the top-level Makefile. > > But then my build breaks as fixdep do not run on my host. > > If you in general want to build a binary for the target then uapiprogs come in handy. > Only caveat here is that you will be using the exported kernel headers. > Thanks for explaining this. It is clearer to me now. At first I thought this patch was a clean-up, but it is indeed a big improvement. Thanks! Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- 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
