On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:19:59 +0200 Agostino Sarubbo <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> If you try to launch make V=1 from the kernel source directory you > will see: > snip < > So it calls gcc directly. Yes. That is called a default. Set CC on the make command line or set CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE through make *config if you don't like the default. > I see we don't like gcc called directly from the tracker[1], but this > is for packages/ebuild. Should this bug block that tracker or it is > invalid? What bug (report)? The kernel build system cannot guess what compiler you want to use, so it defaults to CC=gcc. It's a feature. jer