Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 201011100423.13449.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
- use the cross compiler again (fw_printenv is intended for a hosted environment on the target).
the cross-compiler used to create u-boot has no guarantee that it'll produce executables useful for the target OS. often this isnt the case. HOSTCC
Really? You mean, you need different tool chains to build U-Boot, the Linux kernel or user space applications? Frankly, I consider those tool chains broken.
however will produce useful userspace applications for whatever host the user has selection.
This makes no sense to me. We have CROSS_COMPILE set, and that is supposed to be used for cross compilation.
IIRC, HOSTCC refers to the C compiler on the and for the build host, i. e. when running on a x86 system it will create x86 code. This is obviously wrong when we try to build fw_printenv for, say, a PPC4xx system.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk