[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] tools/env: use host build flags

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Nov 10 23:11:16 CET 2010


On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 14:54:17 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Mike, what _exactly_ was the reason to drop cross compilation?
> > 
> > nothing was "dropped".  you need to set your HOSTCC correctly for the
> > host on which you want tools to compile.
> 
> But it is WRONG to use HOSTCC for fw_* - these are _target_ tools, and
> they need to be CROSS compiled.

so do what i said -- set the HOSTCC to the host you want the tools to run on.  
this will work for *all* tools instead of arbitrarily picking some to use 
HOSTCC while picking others to use CROSS.

> > this is like arguing that none of the tools in tools/Makefile
> > cross-compile. they do.  i simply fixed tools/env/Makefile to operate
> > the same.
> 
> Seems this was not a fix, but introduced an error.  Dp you agree to
> revert that commit?

of course i disagree.  this change is a fix in my mind.
-mike
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