[U-Boot-Users] Makefile problems

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <42897D34.1D5EDE7 at vollmann.ch> you wrote:
>
> > You better know exactly what you are doing, so having to remember the
> > correct command is a Good Thing (TM).
> Hmm, so if my host's C compiler happens to be named gcc, I don't
> have to remember, but if it happens to be named differently
> (ncc, como, gcc-3, acc, ...) I need to remember?
> Strange policy...

What is strange about this? You will have to do the same whith  about
any Makefile I know.

> Well, that's the way all the packages using 'configure' work.
> They pick up whatever is defined in your environment at
> configure time.

We don't use configure, though.

> And as I wrote, my most preferred solution would be something
> like 'HOSTCC=gcc-3 make xyz_config'.  To achieve this, a simple
> line like '[ $HOSTCC ] && echo "HOSTCC = $HOSTCC" >> config.mk'
> in mkconfig would probably suffice.  But maybe there's another
> (better) way.

What makes it difficult for you to use

	make HOSTCC=gcc-3 xyz_config
instead of 
	HOSTCC=gcc-3 make xyz_config
??

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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