CROSS_COMPILE

[Thomas Fröhlich]

Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 23:59 schrieb Rob Landley:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 11:16 am, Richard Braun wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:11:49PM +0200, Thomas Fröhlich wrote:
> > > Why did someone erase the configs USING_CROSS_COMPILER &
> > > CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX in revision r1559?
> > >
> > > I think this was a nice feature!
> >
> > I agree.
>
> We switched to work more like the linux kernel.
> Specify "CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-" or whatever, and it should work. 
> (If it doesn't, let me know, and I'll fix it.)
>
> The busybox .config file is about feature selection.  It's configuring
> busybox, not configuring your build environment.  If you want to build
> busybox for x86, arm, ppc, mips, having the cross compiler configuration
> in your .config file entangles stuff that shouldn't be.
>
> If you really really want it in a file, you create a makefile snippet
> called ".config.mak" and include any configuration stuff in there you
> want. (It's in makefile format, not .config format, but in this case
> they should work reasonably alike.)

ok, kernel like...it works ;)

But I think in the Repository should stay a .config.mak.example for users 
which don't have an idea about cross compiling and other special things. 
Someone will learn it and so is the first step easier.

regards
Thomas