From: Ray Lambert <listlizard_at_interthingy.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:38:14 -0400 (EDT)

Would it make sense to run 'tools make' from the configure script?

~ray

Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 22:49 +0200, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
>> BlueChip wrote:
>> > Before I document a work-around to this problem ...Would any of the
>> core
>> > guys care to comment on any reasons why this cannot be included as a
part of the build process?
>>
>> The makefils actually did this not long ago, but we removed it. The
reason is that make wasn't very good at handling cross compilation and
native compilation in the same build, resulting in weird errors on some
operating systems.
>
> Uh, isn't that the idea behind using $HOSTCC and $CC?
> ie, CC for the target, HOSTCC for things that need to be compiled for
the host?
>
> For the simulator, CC would be equal to HOSTCC, but for the iriver and
archos builds, you'd set CC to m68k-elf-gcc/sh-elf-gcc and leave HOSTCC
as just gcc...
>
> It's the convention I've run into in the past, at least.
>
> Andrew

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