On Fri, 18 May 2001, Steven Liu wrote: > Hi ALL: > > I have a question regarding MIPS Makefile. > > In the Makefile of the Linux build directory, there are two Macros of C > compiler flags: HOSTCFLAGS and CFLAGS. > > What are their purpose and difference? In another words, what is host gcc? > Why do we use host gcc in building the target kernel? > See Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. -Justin
