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

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 17:59 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Kenneth Johansson,
> 
> In message <1244733541.4182.81.camel at localhost.localdomain> 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 ? 
> 
> Because that's the way how the ELDK is designed.

aaha I missed that he used ELDK never used that myself. I thought this
was u-boot specific and got a bit confused.

But if ELDK uses wrapper scripts around the real binaries that checks
certain variables it makes more sense.