[coreboot] What's the purpose of xcompile?

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Mon May 9 14:38:17 CEST 2011


Am 09.05.2011 14:36, schrieb Peter Stuge:
> Remember that we may want ARCH to be set by mainboards rather than
> users. This might become important because xcompile usually runs
> also before configuration.
That's why (in my proposal) the actual assignment is done in the
Makefile, not in xcompile. xcompile lists _all_ candidate toolchains it
finds, Makefile selects the one for the current build out of those given
by xcompile.


Patrick




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