The patch titled kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kconfig-cross_compile-option.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> This adds CROSS_COMPILE as a kconfig string so you can store it in .config. Then you can use plain "make" in the configured kernel build directory to do the right cross compilation without setting the command-line or environment variable every time. With this, you can set up different build directories for different kernel configurations, whether native or cross-builds, and then use the simple: make -C /build/dir M=module-source-dir idiom to build modules for any given target kernel, indicating which one by nothing but the build directory chosen. I tried a version that defaults the string with env="CROSS_COMPILE" so that in a "make oldconfig" with CROSS_COMPILE in the environment you can just hit return to store the way you're building it. But the kconfig prompt for strings doesn't give you any way to say you want an empty string instead of the default, so I punted that. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 4 +++- init/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Makefile~kconfig-cross_compile-option Makefile --- a/Makefile~kconfig-cross_compile-option +++ a/Makefile @@ -177,11 +177,13 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i # CROSS_COMPILE can be set on the command line # make CROSS_COMPILE=ia64-linux- # Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment. +# A third alternative is to store a setting in .config so that plain +# "make" in the configured kernel build directory always uses that. # Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables # Note: Some architectures assign CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH) ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) -CROSS_COMPILE ?= +CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%) # Architecture as present in compile.h UTS_MACHINE := $(ARCH) diff -puN init/Kconfig~kconfig-cross_compile-option init/Kconfig --- a/init/Kconfig~kconfig-cross_compile-option +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT variables passed to init from the kernel command line. +config CROSS_COMPILE + string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" + help + Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for + default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't + need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build + directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. + config LOCALVERSION string "Local version - append to kernel release" help _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roland@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch kconfig-cross_compile-option.patch proc_flush_task-flush-proc-tid-task-pid-when-a-sub-thread-exits.patch ptrace-__ptrace_detach-do-__wake_up_parent-if-we-reap-the-tracee.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-shift-security_task_wait-from-eligible_child-to-wait_consider_task.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-change-__wake_up_parent-to-use-filtered-wakeup.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-change-__wake_up_parent-to-use-filtered-wakeup-selinux_bprm_committed_creds-use-__wake_up_parent.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-child_wait_callback-check-__wnothread-case.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-fix-child_wait_callback-eligible_child-usage.patch do_wait-wakeup-optimization-simplify-task_pid_type.patch do_wait-optimization-do-not-place-sub-threads-on-task_struct-children-list.patch wait_consider_task-kill-parent-argument.patch do_wait-fix-sys_waitid-specific-behaviour.patch wait_noreap_copyout-check-for-wo_info-=-null.patch signals-introduce-do_send_sig_info-helper.patch signals-send_sigio-use-do_send_sig_info-to-avoid-check_kill_permission.patch fcntl-add-f_etown_ex.patch signals-inline-__fatal_signal_pending.patch signals-tracehook_notify_jctl-change.patch signals-tracehook_notify_jctl-change-do_signal_stop-do-not-call-tracehook_notify_jctl-in-task_stopped-state.patch signals-introduce-tracehook_finish_jctl-helper.patch utrace-core.patch exec-fix-set_binfmt-vs-sys_delete_module-race.patch elf-clean-up-fill_note_info.patch elf-clean-up-fill_note_info-fix.patch fork-disable-clone_parent-for-init.patch pidns-deny-clone_parentclone_newpid-combination.patch task_struct-cleanup-move-binfmt-field-to-mm_struct.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html