[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Add non-standard compiler prefix support

[Segher Boessenkool]

[ 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