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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -183,11 +183,14 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \ # CROSS_COMPILE can be set on the command line # make CROSS_COMPILE=ia64-linux- # Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment. +# A third alternative is to store a setting in .config so that plain +# "make" in the configured kernel build directory always uses that. # Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables # Note: Some architectures assign CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH) ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) CROSS_COMPILE ?= +CROSS_COMPILE ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%) # Architecture as present in compile.h UTS_MACHINE := $(ARCH) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d95ca7cd5d4..313506d8be6 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT variables passed to init from the kernel command line. +config CROSS_COMPILE + string "Cross-compiler tool prefix" + help + Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for + default make runs in this kernel build directory. You don't + need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build + directory to select the cross-compiler automatically. + config LOCALVERSION string "Local version - append to kernel release" help |