On Thu, 4 May 2006, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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
You can make it so that you can use both, right? This is what the suggested
patch does. No CROSS_COMPILE in env or on the make command line means a native
compilation.
> > > 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.
So let it take a string option, and make it generic.
But on second thought: config options are part of the target configuration,
while CROSS_COMPILE= is part of the host configuration, so IMHO it doesn't
belong in Kconfig. I.e. do you want to have CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE set in your
defconfig? Yes or no, depending on whether you do cross-compilations or not. So
you cannot simply take a defconfig, you'll have to modify it for your host
setup.
So I'd prefer to keep the CROSS_COMPILE, like other arches do.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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