On 5 May 2015 at 16:37, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/05/15 15:33, Justin Cormack wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not sure what to do about that :-( >>>> >>>> An idea: we invent some explicit flag that would be passed to our -gcc, >>>> -g++ or -ld wrapper and mean "build for this particular board". >>> >>> >>> >>> ... the proposal doesn't satisfy it. >>> >>> I'm a fan of the ". xcompile-platform.sh" approach, which sets the right >>> paths, CC, PS1, etc. >>> >>> In that namespace we could choose $platform freely without breaking build >>> suites. >> >> >> Its the standard setup eg if you want your stuff to be installed in >> packages in a Linux distro. But I am not entirely convinced that we >> want to optimise for that use case right now. > > > I'm not entirely sure what your "It" is referring to. > > But philosophically, I'm not really concerned about optimizing for some use > case right now. I'm concerned about not making choices which prevent us > from doing the right thing later (and/or optimizing things later).
"it" is having non conflicting names, rather than paths, as all packaged cross compilers are installed in /usr/bin/ as a matter of policy. Justin
