On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:58:51AM -0700, David Daney wrote: >> What I don't understand is why we are using hostprogs in this >> Makefile. Isn't this a program that would run on the target, not >> the build host? > > Yes. > > Peter, could you please fix it? The intention of these changes was to generate more compiliation coverage for code in Documentation/ The underlying issue is that this doesn't work for cross-compiling because kbuild doesn't have cross-compile support for userspace code. I submitted a patch to disable building Documentation when cross-compiling, as the consensus in the thread that resulted in that patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/510) was that implementing targetprogs in kbuild was not currently worth it. I can try to take a crack at adding targetprogs support, but I'm rather busy right now, so it may take a little while. Thanks, Peter
