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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:08:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option On Mon 2009-09-07 11:38:01, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Yes that would be very nice. Editing Makefile every time I > > crosscomppile for arm sucks. > > The other trick I can recommend is to write a GNUmakefile containing: > > ARCH=foo > CROSS_COMPILE=foo-linux- > include Makefile Hehe, thanks. > (GNU make reads GNUmakefile in preference to Makefile.) > But this manual hackery is still not nearly as nice as the automagic way. > > > But... do we need an option for subarch, too? And will Kconfig system > > handle that? > > I'm not sure I follow exactly what your concern is. I am mostly familiar > with doing x86 and powerpc builds. For both of those, the kernel config > sets whether it's the 32-bit or 64-bit world. Well, my concern is that your patch allows me to set $CROSS_COMPILE, but I need to set $ARCH too, to get useful result. So I can't actually see how to use your patch. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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