Hi Lukasz, On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:55:45 +0100, Lukasz Majewski <l.majew...@samsung.com> wrote:
> Hi Albert, > > > Hi Lukasz, Tom, > > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 04:46:48PM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote: > > > > > > > > > After Kbuild introduction, the CROSS_COMPILE environment > > > > > variable has been set to some default value (prefix arm-linux-). > > > > > > > > Note that this is quite a long-standing thing. Perhaps we're now > > > > not detecting a native build when we used to? > > > > > > My point is that we are relying on assigning default prefix (i.e. > > > arm-linux-) > > > > > > For example OSELAS toolchains can have an arbitrary prefix > > > (e.g. arm-linux-gnueabi-). > > > > > > When I cross compile I set explicitly "CROSS_COMPILE=<toolchain> > > > make" and it works as it should (with or without this patch). Such > > > approach seems natural for me. > > > > > > However, I don't know what is the exact rationale for seting this > > > arm-linux- prefix to CROSS_COMPILE. > > > I can only guess, that it is connected with situation when one just > > > type "make" on x86_64 host and expect u-boot to be CROSS_COMPILE'd > > > out of the box. > > > > Agree. > > It is useful only for people using "arm-linux-gcc" on x86 host. > > I usually use "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc". Someone else may be using other > > prefixes. > > > > I think there is no rationale more sophisticated than that it just has > > been there since long time before. > > > > So, I agree with this patch except a little misleading > > commit description I commented below. > > > > Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamad...@jp.panasonic.com> > > > > Albert, could you take this patch for your arm repository? I can. How would you like me to rephrase the commit message? Amicalement, -- Albert. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
