On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:46:36PM +0200, 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? There are four different tool prefixes possible for MIPS kernels, mips-linux-, mipsel-linux-, mips64-linux- and mips64el-linux. This bit in the Makefile makes the kernel automatically pick up the right thing if CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE is set. The idea of passing CROSS_COMPILE from the environment always seemed to be wrong to me - I keep jumping between all sorts of weird different kernel configurations so no single setting of an environment variable would cut it. What I'd really like to see is a properly working CONFIG_MYARCH option selectable in Kconfig. Then the makefiles should figure out if it's a native or crosscompile and add the right tool prefix. The user should not need to know that sort of stuff unless he wants to. Ralf
