Given my recent problems with kernel-package also failing in passing the HOSTCC values recursively to the build tree (see the kernel-building saga about which version of GCC produces broken kernels, a few weeks back on this same list) and noticing that this is what apt-build would also do (pass values down via 'make') I am beginging to suspect that 'make' is actually what's broken; it apparently fails to recursively pass compiling options recursively down a build tree, if they are given as environmnetal or commandline variables (it finally worked but only when I edited the kernel tree's MakeVars file by hand, then also passed the CC and HOSTCC variables as bash exports, plus as make-kpkg variables).
-- Martin-�ric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
