Re: [patch] 2.4.0-pre6 StackGuard gcc makefile fix

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 05:42:42 EST

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mec@shout.net said:
> In the top Makefile, $(CC) isn't usable until after the to Makefile
> includes arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile. This is because the arch Makefile can
> change the value of $(CROSS_COMPILE), which affects the value of
> $(CC).

Under what circumstances is it valid for the arch Makefile to override the
setting of CROSS_COMPILE which the user has explicitly set in the top-level
Makefile?

I thought it was only m68k which did this, and that it had since been fixed.

-- dwmw2

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