On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > I noticed that, unlike for other architectures like ARM or PowerPC, > the MIPS Makefile does not pick up the settings from a CROSS_COMPILE > environment variable, at least not with many (all?) default configu- > rations. > > This makes no sense to me - is there an intention behind it? > > Or should I submit a patch to use an environment setting if it > exists, i. e. somthing like this: BTW, currently there's a discussion about such things on lkml under the subject `Make m68k cross compile like every other architecture.'. As you can probably guess, MIPS is unlike every other architecture, too ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds