On May 8, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
..... I understand that having the cross-compiler prefix specified outside the build system has drawbacks. When I first got into embedded Linux (many years ago), I was struck by the inelegance of this also.
The only drawback is you have to type it in correctly :-) This "inelegance" of having to set an environment variable has proven extremely useful in many of my experiences with clients building real products. They have installed many different cross compilers, and often use build procedures to meet various configuration management requirements. The need to explicitly select a complier is absolutely necessary, you can't have a Makefile guessing. I personally like setting the environment option, and wish MIPS would just drop this whole cross compile selection from the configuration process and work like all of the other architectures. Thanks. -- Dan
