Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var

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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:14:32PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:06:47AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:04:49PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 
> > > Let me ask a stupid question.  With all of the ways to otherwise do a
> > > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS?  ARM*/SH*, which are at
> > > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that.  Just
> > > something I've always wondered, really.
> > 
> > Having such information in an environment variable is imho terribly
> > inelegant, having to pass it on the command line for each make invocation
> > is terrible abuse for the fingertips so I went for this option which makes
> > the makefile pick the right prefix.
> 
> I don't suppose you'd be willing to front pushing that to the rest of
> the world then, would you?  Inconsistency is more of a problem for me
> than changing any of my scripts to use something else :)

... I forgot this doesn't take a string value of what to use but
hard-coded options.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/


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