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

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