On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:13:11 +0100 Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008 17:34:13 Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:26 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:16:59PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > > > I'm wondering if we can't simply pass a commandline parameter to file2alias > > > > that tells it whether we are crosscompiling. It should simply omit the sanity check > > > > > > Sounds reasonable to me. > > > > In fact, file2alias shouldn't need a command line argument ... > > Well, if... > > > > > in that case. Is there any easy and reliable way to find out whether we > > > > are crosscompiling from a makefile (I don't know the makefile core that much)? > > > > > > Non-empty CROSS_COMPILE definition? > > > > ... it can just check whether CROSS_COMPILE is set in its environment. > > No? > > Is that exported to the environment? Certainly, in top-level Makefile: export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE export HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html