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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:26:50PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> [ 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 ;-)

Well I can make a symlink, but certainly in the past (wheezy and older),
when you build the cross compiler from the debian gcc source package,
you get architecture-gcc-version as the binary.  It used to be they
used alternatives to setup a symlink to one of the versions installed
for the cross compiler, but they got rid of that (which I don't really
miss because I found it always picked the wrong one by default somehow).

But I don't expect any build scripts to deal with that (certainly the
linux kernel doesn't), and there are perfectly simple ways around the
problem.

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Len Sorensen