[ I didn't see this part of the thread before, sorry... Well, this separate thread of the thread, heh. ]
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:22:46AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
PREFIX sure could be confused with the installation path prefix.
I like the CROSS_COMPILER variable that the linux kernel and some other projects use.
I do find it inconvinient that it always seems that whatever prefix you specify has gcc appended to it given all my cross compilers have gcc-version at the end of their name. That's just how Debian has generated them for years.
GCC itself generates *both* e.g. powerpc-linux-gcc-4.9.0 and powerpc-linux-gcc. Debian has no way to set that to the version you want to use? How inconvenient. You can make an alias of course ;-)
Segher