This simplifies the patch even more. The $PREFIX variable has been changed to $CROSS_COMPILER. It is much more intuitive this way. Thank you Lennart for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle programmingkidx@gmail.com
Index: config/scripts/switch-arch =================================================================== --- config/scripts/switch-arch (revision 1335) +++ config/scripts/switch-arch (working copy) @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@
select_prefix() { - for TARGET in ${1}-unknown-linux-gnu- ${1}-linux-gnu- ${1}-linux- ${1}-elf- ${1}-eabi- + # if the user specified the cross compiler like this: CROSS_COMPILER=ppc-elf- ./switch-arch ppc + for TARGET in ${1}-unknown-linux-gnu- ${1}-linux-gnu- ${1}-linux- ${1}-elf- ${1}-eabi- $CROSS_COMPILER do if type ${TARGET}gcc > /dev/null 2>&1 then