On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Pavel Roskin<proski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:46 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 01:08 -0700, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: >> > Who currently owns CRDA? >> > >> > I started to stare at cross-compiling issues, but realized that we need >> > two versions of reglib.o and print-regdom.o... >> > >> > One to link with regdumpdb (compiled with HOSTCC) and one to link with >> > everything else (compiled with TARGET_CC)... >> > >> > No easy way to do this without a lot of changes. >> >> I posted a 5-part patch series to address this issue. >> To the best of my knowledge, it has not been applied yet. >> >> You can find it here: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/35350 > > I objected against using the misleading use of the "TARGET" work in some > variables, but there was no reaction. Failure to react to objections is > the likely reason it wasn't applied. Indeed. > I also think that you add too much complexity to the Makefile. Agreed. > Also, the use of .config is not common. Most valuables can be specified > on the command line. That would override the definitions in Makefile, > and that's how it's done. Yeah for something so simple as CRDA it seems overkill to have a .config. > For instance, you can have this in Makefile: > > HOSTCC = gcc > CC = $(HOSTCC) > > Running "make CC=/opt/mips/bin/gcc" would override CC but not HOSTCC. ACK, is it possible to make it simpler? Luis -- 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
