Tim Bird wrote: > The following patch allows to build using CROSS_COMPILE from the environment. > I have an automated system which works like this, but it chokes on MIPS when > I use it with (albeit non-standard-named) cross-compiler tools. An easy > workaround I'm using is to put CROSS_COMPILE on the make command line, but it would > be nice to use the definition already in the environment when I work > manually in the system. > > For past discussion of this see: > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2003-02/msg00196.html > > I'm not sure why the change didn't make it in back in 2003, but > if the complaint was about the use of "?=", that seems to be in use > other places, and fairly standard now. > > For example, from the top level kernel Makefile: > ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) > CROSS_COMPILE ?= It looks like the other arch-specific Makefiles also override the environment. To work around the problem, you can disable CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE and define CROSS_COMPILE in the environment. Strangely enough, the help for CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE already explains that. Thiemo
