On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32.
>> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH.
>> > Do really need that behavior?
>>
>> This does remove functionality.
>> It allows to build a kernel using e.g. "make ARCH=m68k".
>>
>> Perhaps this can be moved to generic code? Most (not all!) cross-toolchains
>> are called $ARCH-{unknown-,}linux{,-gnu}.
>> Exceptions are e.g. am33_2.0-linux and bfin-uclinux.
>
> Today you can specify CROSS_COMPILE in Kconfig.
> With this we should be able to remove these hacks.

The correct CROSS_COMPILE value depends on the host environment, not
on the target configuration.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
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