Re: Cross Compiling "make programs" patch

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>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Bantoft <[email protected]> writes:
    Ken> Compared to 1.99, 2.00 is remarkably easier to cross compile.  Most
    Ken> of this is due to centralizing all of the programs under programs/,

  Good to hear.

    Ken> Now, to cross compile, I just export the conventional environment
    Ken> variables like so:

    Ken> export CC=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-gcc export
    Ken> LD=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-ld export
    Ken> RANLIB=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-ranlib export
    Ken> AR=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-ar export
    Ken> AS=/opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-as export
    Ken> LD_LIBRARYPATH=/z/zeeswan-2.00/zaurus/libs export
    Ken> KERNEL_SRC=/z/bk-buildroot/build/linux

    Ken> And "make programs" now builds using the correct gcc, ld, etc... and
    Ken> links against binary Zaurus libs I place in
    Ken> /z/zeeswan-2.00/zaurus/libs (currently, this is libgmp.so)

    Ken> Thoughts?

  Should defaults go into Makefile.inc?

  I think that it is okay, because "make" has defaults for it all.

  So, I committed your patch.

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