Dear Mike,
in message 200701080332.57705.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
for some reason there's a special case for ppc HOSTARCH's when setting up the default CROSS_COMPILE value ... this messes up my default env builds when going between my x86/amd64/ppc dev hosts ;)
What exactly happens?
ifndef CROSS_COMPILE
... if CROSS_COMPILE is *NOT* set ...
-ifeq ($(HOSTARCH),ppc)
... and you are on a PPC host ...
-CROSS_COMPILE =
... then define CROSS_COMPILE as empty string, i. e. use the native PPC compiler.
This looks ok to me.
-else ifeq ($(ARCH),ppc) CROSS_COMPILE = powerpc-linux-
With your patch applies, we would use powerpc-linux-gcc even if we are on a PPC host; this may be wanted (in which case you should have CROSS_COMPILE set when running make, and the "ifndef CROSS_COMPILE" will not apply), but usually you want to run the native tools.
So what is your problem?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk