From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:54:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] Makefile: introduce CROSS_COMPILE variable
Message-ID: <535eea307640d_5a07e812f050@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20140428233806.GS9218@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Marat Radchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:37:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> >>> +CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)cc
> >>
> >> Nice.
> >
> > Actually, not. You still have to override CC because it is
> > $(CROSS_COMPILE)*g*cc. Any thoughts how to handle this?
> 
> One possibility would be something like
> 
> 	ifdef CROSS_COMPILE
> 	CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> 	else
> 	CC = cc
> 	endif

Or just:

  CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc

Which is what the Linux kernel does.

> Or as Felipe says, you can try to lobby your distro to install the
> symlink.

He can add the symlink into his ~/bin, or any $PATH.

-- 
Felipe Contreras