[PATCH] support CROSS_COMPILE environment variable
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at linux.intel.com
Wed Oct 24 14:55:41 PDT 2007
Tim Bird wrote:
> Thanks for the great utility!
>
> I'm using powertop on a non-Intel target platform, and needed
> to cross-compile for my board. I found instructions for this
> by Googling (this list), but I thought it might be handy
> to document this and also support the use of the CROSS_COMPILE
> environment variable (which is the same as what the kernel uses
> for this).
well... powertop cross compiles like all other userland... (override
CC). I think that's both obvious enough and standardized to the
extreme that adding something only the kernel does isn't all that
useful... it just makes things more complex for people who crossbuild.
So I think I'll skip this one; I appreciate the contribution though!
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