Re: [U-Boot-Users] PPC as host

In message 1098716549.1186.7.camel@imac you wrote:

Apparently no one uses Linux PPC as host?

Not many, but some are.

So no one ever had problems cross-compiling u-boot for another target then (o;

Or the problems were solved.

In the top Makefile we have:

ifndef CROSS_COMPILE ifeq ($(HOSTARCH),ppc) CROSS_COMPILE = else ....

which always picks up the host ppc compiler regardless what ARCH you have defined for your board...

Please note the "ifndef CROSS_COMPILE" - i.e. all you need to do is provide a correct setting of the CROSS_COMPILE variable in your environment resp. your make command line. I think this is actually documented somewhere.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk