On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:20:01AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Jan 4, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Jeff Epler <jepler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I believe the patch does not have the desired effect, because make(1) > > always sets CC automatically: > > > > $ cat raj.mk > > CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu- > > CC?=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc > > .PHONY: default > > default: > > @echo CC=$(CC) > > $ make -f raj.mk > > CC=cc > > > > With your patch, those who specify CROSS_COMPILE, or for whom gcc and cc > > are different, will get different (worse) behavior. > > Right. I think if CC was used as such with out constructing out of CROSS_COMPILE > in Makefile then my issue would be fixed too. However this would mean that cross compiling users > now have to pass CC = <cross-compiler> themselves instead of CROSS_COMPILE prefix. Is that > acceptable ? You could play with something like: ifeq($(origin CC),default) CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc endif but not sure I'd like the result. If you asked me, I'd drop all that CROSS_COMPILE stuff. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html