[U-Boot] Building U-Boot under Ubuntu 8.10

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 17:04 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear cmfairfa at rockwellcollins.com,
> 
> In message <OF8FD4848E.6EC6CC4F-ON852575D2.004C617A-852575D2.004D5A7B at rockwellcollins.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE are set and exported
> > (ARCH=ppc, CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-)
> 
> ...which is plain wrong. "powerpc-linux-" is NOIT a legal setting for
> CROSS_COMPILE.

why is that ? 
it's just a prefix to whatever you compiled the toolkit to use no?